A reading of a rhythmic poem about the power of a song: “The Music-Makers” written by 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 desolateadjective / des-uh-lit / desolated / desolating / desolately / desolateness / desolater / desolation (Atmospheric) grimly barren, deserted, or deprived of inhabitants I have faith in these desolate times
A score to the sound of the feet 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.

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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.

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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 mirthnoun / murth / mithless / mirthful an emotion that follows humor and accompanied by laughter and amusement We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
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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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Reading Selection:

The Music-Makers by Arthur O’Shaughnessy (1955). In E. Markham (Ed.), Anthology of the World’s Best Poems (Memorial Ed., Vol. V, p. 2395). New York: Wm.H. Wise & Co.

Artwork:

Taiso, Y. (188-) Semimaru / Prince Semimaru. [Photograph] Washington, D.C.
Retrieved from the Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008660259/.

Animation:

thoth. (c.a. 2017) speckledcovered with small, contrasting spots or dots, conveying a sense of diversity or variety ouroboros. [Animation]
Retrieved from Gfycat, https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/TenderIdenticalImpala.

 

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