Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FAR-AWAY DREAMS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS


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First Line: When seated in my easy chair
Last Line: Lost in the southern sea.
Subject(s): Commuters; Farewell; Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Travel; Parting; Oceania; Journeys; Trips


When seated in my easy chair
I often travel far
To distant lands across the seas,
My compass is a star.
'Tis quicker and much easier
Than any other way
To go and come to suit desire,
While here at home I stay.

'Tis only for the traveler
Whose eyes those lands have seen
That memory waves the magic wand
That doth restore the scene.
The charm of travel doth return
Again to me in dreams,
In foreign lands I wander far—
Like radio it seems.

And when I cross Pacific seas,
Soft voices call to me,
And mermaids lure me from my course
To visit Hawaii.
Sweet music permeates the air,
I hear the steel guitars,
My senses sway 'neath perfume rare
That comes from fairest flowers.

And as I pass old Diamondhead,
Cares sink within the sea—
A month, a week, seem but a day
When spent at Waikiki,
On the lania at Moana
Beneath the Banyan tree,
At the new Royal Hawaiian
In kingly luxury.

Within the charm of song and flowers—
Forever I could stay,
But the lure of other voices
Doth urge me on my way.
While leis drop around my neck
Beneath Aloha's spell—
Sweet words, "Until we meet again"—
With tears we say farewell.

Once more the surf doth boom for me
On reefs at Tahiti
As we sail through the coral gap
That leads to gayety:
The Paris of the Southern Seas
Awaits with open arms
To give the weary traveler
A wealth of love that charms.

I visit the Samoan Isles,
I could not pass them by,
I climb unto the mountain top
Where Stevenson doth lie;
From Apia I sail away
To Suva at Fiji,
And here I leave you for tonight,
Lost in the Southern Sea.





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