Thursday, April 14, 2011

"We are the Music Makers"

I've always loved the first verse of this poem. I don't even remember where I first heard it.


We are the Music Makers

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