At the Sea-side

(idea) by everyone (7.2 mon) Sun Mar 04 2001 at 0:50:14

A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
by
Robert Louis Stevenson

At the Sea-side

When I was down beside the sea
A wooden spade they gave to me

To dig the sandy shore.

My holes were empty like a cup.
In every hole the sea came up,

Till it could come no more.

Public domain text taken from The Poets' Corner:
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/rls02.html#1

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