"We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate s…"

"With wonderful deathless ditties We build up the world's great cities, And out of a fabulous story We fashion an empi…"

"We, in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our mirt…"

"A breath of our inspiration Is the life of each generation; A wondrous thing of our dreaming Unearthly, impossible se…"

"They had no vision amazing Of the goodly house they are raising; They had no divine foreshowing Of the land to which …"

"And therefore to-day is thrilling With a past day's late fulfilling; And the multitudes are enlisted In the faith tha…"

"But we, with our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futur…"

"Great hail! we cry to the comers From the dazzling unknown shore; Bring us hither your sun and your summers; And rene…"

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

"O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go, And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and f…"