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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

At the Sea-side

From Child's Garden of Verses
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.


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