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Sixty Oak Blulls. the old camp-meeting ground: The Tabernacle, with its silver dome and sil- ver cross Outlined by lights that shine across the har- bor in the night, XfVith its encircling colony of gingerbread cot- tages, Each one a fantasy, an architectural night- mare, Quaint and clustered all together in a maze. One night in sunnner lt all is lighted by swaying, gay paper lan- terns, A lire halard perhaps, but a living, moving bit Ol' colorful past-the people gather and sing hymns. Oak Bluffs, the ocean side: XVhere the biggest houses stand looking out across the sea, Across the park, where bands give concerts on an odd Victorian stand, Where children play, and sail toy boats in a make-believe pond. Oak Blulfs, the harbor side: The town wharf that neatly segregates the classes- l'leasure Craft Only , and This End ol' Dock for Fishing Boats. The Ice-chopper clanks away, grinding tons of ice for a Fishermans holdg The delivery wagon brings a hundred pound cake for the ice-box Of the yacht tied up at the end ol' the pier. People walk endlessly up and down, inspect- ing each slip, And then hire bright little paddle-boats to cruise about the harbor. Oak Bluffs: camp-meeting ground, main drag, Town dock, and big houses lacing the sea- Oak Bluffs, a contrast . . . The road to Edgartown, a long. narrow strip Stretched out along the beach-one side, the ocean: The other, a still lagoon. At sunset The lagoon glows pink and lavender, and gray gulls NVheel in a red sky before settling down for night. The beach is almost deserted then, for eve- ning shadows are cool. At night, beneath the moon, the sea becomes A black silhouette. breaking white on the sands, And grasses on the dunes swish softly in the wind- he road is there to bridge the two eterni- ties . . . T Edgartown, where the lleet is in: the har- bor's hlled To overflowing with boats and masts and flagsg There is a big black schooner sporting a set of outsize signals, And the Bolero with sails lurled neatly in blue covers On silvery aluminum masts. There are white boats, Blue boats, black boats, green boats, power boats, sail boats- Large and small, hut everywhere boats, boats and brightly colored llags, Beneath a gay blue sky full ol' whipped cream clouds. South Beach. that long expanse of sand That faces towards Nantucket, and toward Spain. The waves are always big here. They come in l'oamy-crested. Curling over and rushing whitely, purring, up the beach. QYou there. with the binoculars, trying to sec Nantucket- l'ut them down and tome and I'ecl South Beach. Feel it shake as the waves crash in-lake oll' your shoes And leel the foaming waters carry the sands away, Feel them slip from beneath your toesg feel the water Swirl and pull about your ankles, coaxing you in deeper, Until a bigger wave can playfully soak your clothes.j Sometimes the sea is angry. and the waves come in like mountains Being blasted, the barriers of water crashing down With mighty roars and rumbles. covering the sands YVith their wreckage. QThen indeed can you l'eel the beach, lt quakes beneath you, and the blown spray from waves Comes up to meet you standing there atop the dunes. And forms a salty crust upon your skin: the wind X'Vreaks havoc with your hairj -You must feel South Beach. To know it, to love it .
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