Death & Dying

Xl—an End of Travel

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1850–1894

From Songs of Travel, and Other Verses

Death & Dying

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.

MLA

Stevenson, Robert Louis. “Xl—an End of Travel.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/94/.

Chicago

Stevenson, Robert Louis. “Xl—an End of Travel.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/94/.

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