"Elizabeth Haydon - Rhapsody 5 - Elegy for a Lost Star" - читать интересную книгу автора (Haydon Elizabeth)

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First Edition: August 2004
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For my adopted siblings Daughter of the Earthly Garden
Son of the Sea
for all they've done
to keep it going
with love


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Many thanks to three sets of innkeepers whose hospitality was
inspirational in the places I visited while researching this book:
The Taste of Alaska Lodge, Fairbanks, Alaska
Quagmire Manor, Homer, New York
King's Inn, Huntsville, Alabama


ODE
 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.
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 diat is coming to birth.

-Arthur O'Shaughnessy