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Sand Castles

Build me a castle of sand

Down by the sea.

Here on the edge of the strand

Build it for me.

How shall a foeman invade,

Where may he land,

While we can raise with our spade

Castles of sand?

Turrets upleap and aspire,

Battlements rise

Sweeping the sea with their fire,

Storming the skies.

Pile that a monarch might own,

Mightily plann’d!

I can’t sit here on a throne,

This is too grand.

Build me a cottage of sand

Up on the hill;

Snug in a cleft it must stand

Sunny and still.

Plant it with ragwort and ling,

Bramble and bine:

Castles I’ll leave to the King,

This shall be mine.

Storm-clouds drive over the land,

High flies the spray;

Gone are our houses of sand,

Vanished away!

Look at the damage you’ve done,

Sea-wave and rain!

—“Nay, we but give you your fun

Over again.”

W. Graham Robertson.