New memorial unveiled at Poole Crematorium
Poole Crematorium has officially opened a memorial sculpture commemorating lost children; it can be found close to the office and is near to the car park and is intended to be a place for quiet reflection and remembrance following the loss of a loved one.
The memorial, costing £20,000, has been paid for by the generosity of Charles Dook who unfortunately died before its completion; however, relatives of the late Mr Dook were able to witness the Mayor of Poole, Cllr Graham Wilson, unveil the sculpture.
Local artist Zoe Cull created the sculpture. Which includes 3 benches, in Portland Stone and has an extract from Arthur O’Shaughnessy’s poem (1874) ‘We are the music makers’ (see text below)
Please follow the link to the Bournemouth Echo for further reporting:- http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/9332249.Memorial_artwork_for_lost_children_at_Poole_crematorium/
We Are the Music-Makers
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,
Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers,
Of the world forever, 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.
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy