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The Enviable Isles

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From "Rammon."     Through storms you reach them and from storms are free.     Afar descried, the foremost drear in hue,     But, nearer, green; and, on the marge, the sea     Makes thunder low and mist of rainbowed dew.     But, inland, where the sleep that folds the hills     A dreamier sleep, the trance of God, instills--     On uplands hazed, in wandering airs aswoon,     Slow-swaying palms salute love's cypress tree     Adown in vale where pebbly runlets croon     A song to lull all sorrow and all glee.     Sweet-fern and moss in many a glade are here.     Where, strewn in flocks, what cheek-flushed myriads lie     Dimpling in dream--unconscious slumberers mere,     While billows endless round the beaches die.

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