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Ode

1844-1881


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.

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 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.


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