An End of Travel

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

Songs of Travel and Other Verses, 1896

Let now your soul in this substantial worldSome anchor strike. Be here the body moored;—This spectacle immutably from nowThe picture in your eye; and when time strikes,And the green scene goes on the instant blind—The ultimate helpers, where your horse to-dayConveyed you dreaming, bear your body dead.