Another Ode to Sears Island

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By Sally Jones

(Sung to the tune of “Farewell to Nova Scotia”)

Farewell dear Sears Island, Sears Island adieu,

the Maine DOT’s gonna sacrifice you –

Well, we’ve loved you and done just as much as we can

But the Maine DOT’s got a massive port plan.

Farewell to those walks on a clear fall day and

farewell to the sounds of the trees and the bay –

For how can an island stay wild and green

with a deepwater port shoved into her spleen?

Farewell dear Sears Island, Sears Island goodbye,

come concrete and steel, you surely will die –

You were such a beauty, you were such a friend

but they want your life darling, to build turbines for wind.

Sears Island, we’ll never walk ‘round you again,

the birds and the fishes will flee if they can –

The Department of Transport thinks they’re being clever

to mar all your peacefulness and beauty forever.