Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AN END OF TRAVEL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON


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First Line: Let now your soul in this substantial world
Last Line: Vailima.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Death; Soul; Dead, The


LET now your soul in this substantial world
Some anchor strike. Be here the body moored: --
This spectacle immutably from now
The picture in your eye; and when time strikes,
And the green scene goes on the instant blind --
The ultimate helpers, where your horse to-day
Conveyed you dreaming, bear your body dead.

VAILIMA.





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