We are the music makers
And 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 shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems
Extract from "Ode" by Arthur O'Shaugnessy (1844-1881) from his book Music and Moonlight (1874)



