Ode
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
1844 to 1881
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Reconstruct the poem by dragging each line into its correct position. Your goal is to reassemble the original poem as accurately as possible. As you move the lines, you'll see whether your arrangement is correct, helping you explore the poem's flow and meaning. You can also print out the jumbled poem to cut up and reassemble in the classroom. Either way, take your time, enjoy the process, and discover how the poet's words come together to create something truly beautiful.
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And we are the dreamers of dreams,
With wonderful deathless ditties
We, in the ages lying
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
We build up the world's great cities,
For each age is a dream that is dying,
And sitting by desolate streams;
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And out of a fabulous story
And Babel itself with our mirth;
Yet we are the movers and shakers
And three with a new song's measure
World-losers and world-forsakers,
We are the music-makers,
Can trample an empire down.
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
On whom the pale moon gleams:
To the old of the new world's worth;
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
We fashion an empire's glory:
Or one that is coming to birth.
In the buried past of the earth,
Of the world for ever, it seems.