Exile on the beach

“I shall go back again to the bleak shore

And build a little shanty on the sand,

In such a way that the extremest band

Of brittle seaweed will escape my door

But by a yard or two; and nevermore

Shall I return to take you by the hand…’’

— From “I Shall Go Back,’’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1897-1950), a native of Maine