We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by the lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by the 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
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by the lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by the 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