There's a magical isle up the river of Time, Where the softest of airs are playing; There's a cloudless sky and a tropical clime, And a song as sweet as a vesper chime, And the Junes with the roses are staying.
In referring to the British isles a word of apology for those of you of Irish descent that is those whose ancestors come from Eire, the Republic of Ireland.
Or perhaps it all began when I swam into the sun, as I would first learn to do chasing the light in Koufonissi, when Cycladic isles could still be remote and beacons of spare living.
Despite their genetic ancestry, it is Gaelic that lives on and not Norse, but Islanders like Mairead have no ill feelings to those who may have conquered these isles, so many years ago.
Life once wrecked all her dream ships on the sharp rocks of reality; but in the sunny, fantasy isles of insanity, all her barkentines race into port with canvas billowing and winds singing through the masts.
Mr.Morgan believed the salty air of the Portuguese isles would help Pierpont recover from his condition; ultimately, he stayed on the islands for nearly a year.
On the east side of the isle there was a large ridge of rocks which lay two miles from the shore, and a shoal of sand lay for half a mile from the rocks to the beach.