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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 a kingdom down.

— Arthur O'Shaughnessy Music and Moonlight (1874)

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For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

The stars are dimly seen among the shadows of the bay,
And lights that win are seen in strife with lights that die away.

Music and Moonlight (1874)

O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go,
And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow.

Music and Moonlight (1874)

One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample a kingdom down.

The soldier, the king, and the peasant
Are working together in one,
Till our dream shall become their present,
And their work in the world be done.

Music and Moonlight (1874)

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