maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly she couldn t remember her troubles and milly befriended a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were and molly was chased by a horrible thing which raced sideways while blowing bubbles and may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone for whatever we lose it s always ourselves we find in the sea