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First Line: The island dreams under the dawn
Last Line: With vapoury footsole among the water's drowsy blaze.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Nature; Passion


The island dreams under the dawn
And great boughs drop trnquillity;
The peahens dance on a smooth lawn,
A parrot sways upon a tree,
Raging at his own image in enamelled sea.
Here we will moor our lonely ship
and wander ever with woven hands,'
Murmuring how far away are the unquiet lands:
How we alone of mortals are
Hid under quiet bows apart,
While, our love grows and Indian star,
A meteor of the burning heart,
One with the tide that gleams. the wing that gleam and dart,
The heavy boughs, the burnished dove
That moans and sighs a hundred days:
How when we die our shades will rove,
When eve has hushed the feathered ways,
With vapoury footsole among the water's drowsy blaze.




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