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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Island Of Endless Play</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said Willie to Tom 'Let us hie away<br>To the wonderful Island of Endless Play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It lies off the border of 'No School Land'<br>And abounds with pleasures, I understand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There boys go swimming whenever they please<br>In a lovely river right under the trees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And marbles are free, no one has to buy;<br>And kites of all sizes are ready to fly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We sail down the Isthmus of Idle Delight,<br>We sail and we sail for a day and a night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then if favored by billows and breeze<br>We land in the harbor of Do-as-you-please.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And their lies the Island of Endless Play<br>With no one to say to us Must or Nay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Books are not known in that land so fair,<br>Teachers are stoned if they set foot there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hurrah for the Island so glad and free,<br>That is the country for you and me.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So away went Willie and Tom together<br>On a pleasure boat, in the lazy weather,<br>And they sailed in the teeth of a friendly breeze<br>Right into the harbor of 'Do-as-you-please!'<br>Where boats and tackle and marbles and kites<br>Were waiting them there in this Land of Delights.<br>They dwelt on the Island of Endless Play<br>For five long years; then one sad day<br>A strange dark ship sailed up to the strand,<br>And 'Ho! for the voyage to Stupid Land.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Captain cried with a terrible noise<br>As he seized the frightened and struggling boys,<br>And threw them into the dark Ship's hold,<br>And off and away sailed the Captain bold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They vainly begged him to let them out,<br>He answered only with scoff and shout.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Boys that don't study or work,' said he,<br>'Must sail one day down the Ignorant Sea</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To Stupid Land by the No-Book strait,<br>With Captain Time on the Pitiless Fate.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then he let out the sails and away went the three,<br>Over the waters of Ignorant Sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out and away to Stupid Land,<br>And they live there yet, I understand.<br>And there's where every one goes, they say,<br>Who seeks the Island of Endless Play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a><div class=q>
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To the wonderful Island of Endless Play.

It lies off the border of 'No School Land'
And abounds with pleasures, I understand.

There boys go swimming whenever they please
In a lovely river right under the trees..."></div>
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