Arthur O’Shaughnessy, les rêveurs de rêves

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.

Ode, from Music and Moonlight (1874) – Arthur O’Shaughness