“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
