What’s life? A frenzied, blurry haze.What’s life? Not anything it seems.A shadow. Fiction filling reams.All we possess on earth means nil,For life’s a dream, think what you will,And even all our dreams are dreams.

Qué es la vida? Un frenesí.¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión,una sombra, una ficción,y el mayor bien es pequeño:que toda la vida es sueño,y los sueños, sueños son

And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of sleep, Be all a dream in that eternal life To which we wake not till we sleep in death

Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess An unsuspected, or forgotten, self; -Since Dreaming, Madness, Passion, are akin In missing each that salutory rein Of reason, and the grinding will of man.