Was Small and Early, and you broke no rib.

Even as we met where we have met so oft,

Now meet we on this unpretending beach

Below the little village: little, ay!

But pleasant, may my gratitude subjoin?

Meek, hitherto un-Murrayed bathing-place,

Best loved of seacoast-nookful Normandy!

That, just behind you, is mine own hired house:

With right of pathway through the field in front,

No prejudice to all its growth unsheaved