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- # THE ENVIABLE ISLES
## Overview
"The Enviable Isles" is a chapter containing poetry, extracted from the file `john_marr_and_other_poems.txt`. It is part of the larger collection "John Marr and Other Poems."
## Context
This chapter is one of many within the poetry collection "[John Marr and Other Poems](arke:01KG8AJ5CWVMSM9AY2938E996H)," which itself is part of the comprehensive "[Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW)" collection. The text was extracted from the file "[john_marr_and_other_poems.txt](arke:01KG89J19Y3FNVN5KWASY78BP4)". It follows the chapter "[THE BERG](arke:01KG8AJFSHZD8QZPDZ81GDTSA1)" and precedes the chapter "[PEBBLES](arke:01KG8AJGG09XA3QZM0CWHX0JV0)".
## Contents
This chapter contains the poem "The Enviable Isles," which begins with the lines "Through storms you reach them and from storms are free." The poem describes idyllic islands, contrasting their stormy approach with their serene interiors, featuring lush landscapes, gentle streams, and peaceful slumberers.
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- THE ENVIABLE ISLES
_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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- THE ENVIABLE ISLES