Ode
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
1844 to 1881
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We are the music-makers,
And we are the ______ of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting ______ desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the ______ moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
With wonderful ______ ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
______ out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
______ go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with ______ new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.
We, in the ages lying
In the buried past ______ the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And ______ itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For ______ age is a dream that is dying,
Or ______ that is coming to birth.