Sea Joy

When I go down by the sandy shore

I can think of nothing I want more

Than to live by the booming blue sea

As the seagulls flutter round about me

 

I can run about—-when the tide is out

With the wind and the sand and the sea all about

And the sea gulls are swirling and diving for fish

O—-to live by the sea is my only wish.

 – Jacqueline Bouvier, age 10