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HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL

And by gleaming vale and vista Sits the English April's sister,

Soft and sweet and wonderful ! Just to rest beneath the burning Outer world its sneers and spurning Ah, my heart my heart is yearning

Still to be by Mooni cool !

��ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR

O'SHAUGHNESSY 828. Ode

  • V\7TE 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.

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