Ode

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

1844 to 1881

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