Brighton Beach
(Whit-Monday, 1909)
Chocolates and brandy balls and butterscotch,
“Tit-Bits,” “The Mother’s Friend” and “Woman’s Life,”
Sixpenny photographs, a silver watch,
A “little wonder” of a pocket-knife—
All these for sale: the sunshine, given free,
Beats down upon the beach and on the sea
Where ma and brats—fat legs and little feet—
Paddle and laugh and redden in the heat.