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At The SeasideText edition

Retained text edition

At The Seaside

by Robert Louis Stevenson

A complete poem from A Child’s Garden of Verses. Original wording and verse line breaks are preserved.

This edition preserves the original text. Original illustrations are not included. Your existing reading link still opens the same version.

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.

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