Maggie and Milly and Molly and May


    went down to the beach(to play one day)


    and Maggie discovered a shell that sang


    so sweetly she couldn''t remember her troubles, and


    Milly befriended a stranded star


    whose rays five languid fingers were;


    and molly was chased by a horrible thing


    which raced sideways while blowing bubbles: and


    may came home with a smooth round stone


    as small as a world and as large as alone.


    For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)


    it''s always ourselves we find in the sea


    By: E. E. C.u.m.m.i.n.gs