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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

"Ode"



We
 are  the  Music-makers,
We  are  the Dreamers of  Dreams,
Wandering  by  Lone  Sea-breakers,
And  Sitting  by Desolate  Streams;
World-losers  and  World- forsakers,
On  whom  the Pale Moon  Gleams:
Yet  we  are  the Movers  and  the Shakers
Of  the World  forever, 
 it seems.  


With 
 wonderful   Deathless Ditties
We  Build  up  the  World's  great  Cities,
And  out  of  a  Fabulous Story
We  Fashion  an  Empire's  Glory:
One  man  with  a  Dream,  at  Pleasure,
Shall  go  Forth  and Conquer  a  Crown;
And  Three  with  a  new  Song's  Measure
Can  Trample  an  Empire 
 Down.


We
in  the  Ages  Lying
In  the  Buried  past  of  the  Earth,
Built  Ninevah  with  our  Sighing,
And   Babel   itself  With  our  Mirth; 
And  O'erthrew them  with Prophesying
To  the Olde  of  the New World's Worth;
For  Each  Age  is  a  Dream 
 that  is Dying,
OOne that is Coming
to
Birth.


~Arthur O'Shaughnessy
(1844-1881)


~Beannaichte'
25 January, 2017


@beannaichte.twitter.com 


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