Mother here
Where I dig
Did the king sit
Forbidding the tide
From his throne?
Was it here
That the waters
Ignored him?
Relentlessly
Came on and on.
See the waves
I have stopped
With my castle
They dare not overrun
Nor scale
Mother would
Not the king
Have fared better
By using his shovel and pale?
See the waves
I have stopped
With my castle
They dare not overrun
Nor scale
Mother would
Not the king
Have fared better
By using his shovel and pale?
By using his shovel and pale?