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60 Pour some salt water over the floor—
 * Ugly I'm sure you'll allow it to be:

Suppose it extended a mile or more,
 * That's very like the Sea.

Beat a dog till it howls outright—
 * Cruel, but all very well for a spree:

Suppose that he did so day and night,
 * That would be like the Sea.

I had a vision of nursery-maids;
 * Tens of thousands passed by me—

All leading children with wooden spades,
 * And this was by the Sea.

Who invented those spades of wood?
 * Who was it cut them out of the tree?

None, I think, but an idiot could—
 * Or one that loved the Sea.

It is pleasant and dreamy, no doubt, to float
 * With 'thoughts as boundless, and souls as free':

But, suppose you are very unwell in the boat,
 * How do you like the Sea?