Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson

A Child's Garden of Verses. 3. 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.

1. Songs of Travel and Other Verses. 13. Mater Triumphans
2. About the Sheltered Garden Ground
3. Ad Piscatorem
4. Voluntary
5. Light as the Linnet on My Way I Start

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