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94 Tuesday, April 3, 1928 [[strikethrough]] the panting of the train grew more snorting as it left behind another small village and another stretch of parallel silvery lines. [[/strikethrough]] lxdfghjhlusupqatbo "O You on Blue Island" And are you staying there, secure, Answering Blue Islands lure? Watching where, once, you and I Saw blue horizon find the sky? Do you still see the little kind Ripples purl, then creep behind A larger wave? [[strikethrough]] Right to the sails A small ship going as the sky pales to pinkish pales? [[/strikethrough]] Feel the half-breeze that turns the leaves of lucious trees And sways the oranges? [[strikethrough]] and clutches [[/strikethrough]] And waits The [[strikethrough]] while the night comes on when [[/strikethrough]] sun long, still hesitates the dark to come? Is still the sea So wond'rous clear, so perfectly Delicate blue? Are nightingales Still there? And all the [[strikethrough]] whit [[/strikethrough]] glist'ning, gleaming sails Of little boats? Does the church try, [[strikethrough]] No [[?]] [[/strikethrough]], to pierce the limitless, high sky And so near God! Do you still feel that everything is strangely real 95 bcdfgAiAlmupqrotw Wednesday, April 4, 1928 So real that it is fantasy? And sometimes, [[strikethrough]] tell me [[/strikethrough]], do you [[strikethrough]] get [[/strikethrough]] see the pointed orange rocks that poke Above the blue? I see still the folk As happy as they were? And do You find such simple gladness too, [[strikethrough]] See still the purple hills All content. [[/strikethrough]] Fell indolent and satisfied? Oh, have you seen the mountain side Covered with verdant green, and gray Of olive trees beside? Oh, say [[strikethrough]] Do still [[?]] still where [[/strikethrough]] If [[strikethrough]] perfect [[/strikethrough]] always beauty meets your eyes? Say if it still is Paradise! [[strikethrough]] Say if Blue Island devoid of blue And duty, and [[?]] Do you still - will you understand Is Blue Island as far away From other worlds and [[?were]]? Oh say If anything can ever stir It's peace "Partir c'est mourir un peu" — And having left the place I died A bit, I'm sure. [[/strikethrough]] And you still for me. [[strikethrough]] then in the days [[/strikethrough]] Those are days that were? But, "Partir c'est mourir un peu" [[strikethrough]] And truly I have [[?]] say You'll But you're alive and [[?true]]. [[/strikethrough]] Please say that you'll live. [[?Al]] stay there in its fantasy — And love "Blue Island" too [[strikethrough]] there [[/strikethrough]] - for me!
