Don't think I'll actually be able to sing the entire song in-game, but I figured I'd share it anyways!
Ode - by Arthur O'Shaughnessy
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wondering 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.
We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
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.
Gypsy Draconita
SILVERMANE2
GANGREL
Re: Something I found...
10/03/2004 07:19 PM CDT
Yeah, it's a good one. Willy Wonka even quotes a line from it in the movie!
Killing you softly with his song,
- Stormsinger Shavay
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Killing you softly with his song,
- Stormsinger Shavay
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
CROWGURU0
Re: Something I found...
10/05/2004 06:34 AM CDT
Shouldn't it be 'wandering' by lone sea-breakers? Just wondering, because sitting is on the next line... movement, you know.
~ Renous
______
I must go down to the seas again
to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way
where the wind's like a whetted knife
~ Renous
______
I must go down to the seas again
to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way
where the wind's like a whetted knife
GANGREL
Re: Something I found...
10/05/2004 11:08 AM CDT
>>Shouldn't it be 'wandering' by lone sea-breakers?
Yeah, it's 'wandering.'
A link to the entire poem is here: http://www.bartleby.com/103/6.html
Killing you softly with his song,
- Stormsinger Shavay
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Yeah, it's 'wandering.'
A link to the entire poem is here: http://www.bartleby.com/103/6.html
Killing you softly with his song,
- Stormsinger Shavay
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
TIRYNS99
Re: Something I found...
10/05/2004 01:04 PM CDT
I'm surprised, Renous. You didn't strike me as the poetic type!
~Tashya~
~Tashya~
MAUSUMI
Re: Something I found...
10/05/2004 10:37 PM CDT
now I must chase him around and show him how much I love him...damned pirates, always shocking me.
~Kels
Where's my Mechanical Yak....?
~Kels
Where's my Mechanical Yak....?
MSLKA
Re: Something I found...
10/06/2004 01:53 AM CDT
Renous is full of surprises, believe me! Not to mention editor! Thanks for showing me the light, again. Poor Renous, how long will his patience last with me and my spelling and grammer?
~Eoworfinia~
A scowling snow goblin glares in your direction. It then turns, bends over, and lifts a white fur tunic to reveal its bare posterior to you.
~Eoworfinia~
A scowling snow goblin glares in your direction. It then turns, bends over, and lifts a white fur tunic to reveal its bare posterior to you.
CROWGURU0
Re: Something I found...
10/06/2004 09:02 PM CDT
Yeah, I like some poetry, good at fixing grammar and stuff along those lines. Plenty of surprises.
~ Renous
______
I must go down to the seas again
to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way
where the wind's like a whetted knife
~ Renous
______
I must go down to the seas again
to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way
where the wind's like a whetted knife