Poem of the Day - Part 32

 A Song of Joys
by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman was one of most famous American poets of the 19th century.  A Song of Joys was published in Leaves of Grass, 1860.  It's a long poem, with sections about the joys of the engineer, of the fireman, of the mother, of the fisherman, of the soldier, and others.  This is a very brief excerpt about the joys of being naked on the beach.

O to bathe in the swimming-bath, or in a good place along shore! 

To splash the water! to walk ankle-deep, or race naked along the shore.

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Today being Groundhog Day, I think it's appropriate for us to see these guys racing naked along the shore again, and again, and again ...