There are certain things -a spider, a ghost,
The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three -
That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most
Is a thing they call the SEA.
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" It is pleasant and dreamy, no doubt, to float with thoughts as boundless and souls as free" . Excellent conceptualization in a lovely poem in awe of sea.
Nice poem I try the rocks, and I think it cool That they laugh with such an excess of glee, As I heavily slip into every pool, That skirts the cold, cold SEA.
While I agree with many points Lewis Carroll makes about unpleasant aspects of the sea, I do not agree with his 3rd stanza of this poem. I fall asleep nightly to the sound of ocean waves, and find it to be a soothing, peaceful sound. Quite unlike a beaten dog!