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“We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dream.”

- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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“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.”

- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Source/Notes: Music and Moonlight (1874)

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“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.”

- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Source/Notes: Music and Moonlight (1874)

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“We, in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our mirth; And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world's worth; For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth.”

- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Source/Notes: Music and Moonlight (1874)

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“A breath of our inspiration Is the life of each generation; A wondrous thing of our dreaming Unearthly, impossible seeming — The soldier, the king, and the peasant Are working together in one, Till our dream shall become their present, And their work in the world be done.”

- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Source/Notes: Music and Moonlight (1874)

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“They had no vision amazing Of the goodly house they are raising; They had no divine foreshowing Of the land to which they are going: But on one man's soul it hath broken, A light that doth not depart; And his look, or a word he hath spoken, Wrought flame in another man's heart.”

- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Source/Notes: Music and Moonlight (1874)

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“The stars are dimly seen among the shadows of the bay, And lights that win are seen in strife with lights that die away.”

- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Source/Notes: Music and Moonlight (1874)

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“O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go, And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow.”

- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Source/Notes: Music and Moonlight (1874)

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“Spread sail! For it is Hope today that like a wind new-risen Doth waft us on a golden wing towards a new horizon, That is the sun before our sight, the beacon for us burning, That is the star in all our night of watching and of yearning.”

- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Source/Notes: Music and Moonlight (1874)

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“Love is this thing that we pursue today, tonight, for ever, We care not whither, know not who shall be at length the giver: For Love, — our life and all our years are cast upon the waves; Our heart is as the hand that steers; — but who is He that saves?”

- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Source/Notes: Music and Moonlight (1874)

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“Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems.”

- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Source/Notes: Ode l. 7 (1874)

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“If you go over desert and mountain, Far into the country of Sorrow, To-day and to-night and to-morrow, And maybe for months and for years; You shall come with a heart that is bursting For trouble and toiling and thirsting, You shall certainly come to the fountain At length, — to the Fountain of Tears.”

- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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“One man with a dream, at pleasure, Shall go forth and conquer a crown And three with a new song's measure Can trample a kingdom down.”

- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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