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62 There is an insect that people avoid
 * (Whence is derived the verb 'to flee').

Where have you been by it most annoyed?
 * In lodgings by the Sea.

If you like your coffee with sand for dregs,
 * A decided hint of salt in your tea,

And a fishy taste in the very eggs—
 * By all means choose the Sea.

And if, with these dainties to drink and eat,
 * You prefer not a vestige of grass or tree,

And a chronic state of wet in your feet,
 * Then—I recommend the Sea.

For I have friends who dwell by the coast—
 * Pleasant friends they are to me!

It is when I am with them I wonder most
 * That any one likes the Sea.

They take me a walk: though tired and stiff,
 * To climb the heights I madly agree;

And, after a tumble or so from the cliff,
 * They kindly suggest the Sea.