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FAR OVER SEAS AN ISLAND IS, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Down the desired creek
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Islands


Far over seas an island is
Whereon when day is done
A grove of tossing palms
Are printed on the sun.
And all about the reefy shore
Blue breakers flash and fall.
There shall I go, methinks,
When I am done with all.

Have I no castle then in Spain,
No island of the mind,
Where I can turn and go again
When life shall prove unkind?
Up, sluggard soul! and far from here
Our mountain forest seek;
Or nigh enchanted island, steer
Down the desired creek.





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