Apropos of absolutely nothing, this stanza came to me after reading Ode by 
O’Shaughnessy:

They are the music makers, 
        and we the dancers of dreams,
Balancing by the lone ocean waves, 
        swinging our neighbors supreme,
world-losers and world-forsakers, 
        robins chaining to the extremes,
Yet we are the movers and shakers, 
        balancing the rings.
—me, with no apology to O'Shaughnessy

Inspired in a moment of madness from that famous poem...

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.
— Stanza 1, Ode by Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy

Improvements and additions welcome!

\Bob Peterson
Billerica, MA
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