Stevie Smith - Children who paddle where the ocean bed shelves steeplyMust take...

Children who paddle where the ocean bed shelves steeplyMust take great care they do not, Paddle too deeply.'Thus spake the awful aging coupleWhose heart the years had turned to rubble. But the little children, to save any brother, Let it in at one ear and out at the other.

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Children who paddle where the ocean bed shelves steeplyMust take great care they do not, Paddle too deeply.'Thus spake the awful aging coupleWhose heart the years had turned to rubble. But the little children, to save any brother, Let it in at one ear and out at the other. Stevie Smith

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