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AN END OF TRAVEL by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: LET NOW YOUR SOUL IN THIS SUBSTANTIAL WORLD
Last Line: VAILIMA.
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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