- How pleasant to sit on the beach,
- On the beach, on the sand, in the sun,
- With ocean galore within reach,
- And nothing at all to be done!
- No letters to answer,
- No bills to be burned,
- No work to be shirked,
- No cash to be earned,
- It is pleasant to sit on the beach
- With nothing at all to be done!
- How pleasant to look at the ocean,
- Democratic and damp; indiscriminate;
- It fills me with noble emotion
- To think I am able to swim in it.
- To lave in the wave,
- Majestic and chilly,
- Tomorrow I crave;
- But today it is silly.
- It is pleasant to look at the ocean;
- Tomorrow, perhaps, I shall swim in it.
- How pleasant to gaze at the sailors.
- As their sailboats they manfully sail
- With the vigor of vikings and whalers
- In the days of the vikings and whale.
- They sport on the brink
- Of the shad and the shark;
- If its windy they sink;
- If it isn't, they park.
- It is pleasant to gaze at the sailors,
- To gaze without having to sail.
- How pleasant the salt anesthetic
- Of the air and the sand and the sun;
- Leave the earth to the strong and athletic,
- And the sea to adventure upon.
- But the sun and the sand
- No contractor can copy;
- We lie in the land
- Of the lotus and poppy;
- We vegetate, calm and aesthetic,
- On the beach, on the sand, in the sun.
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