From Beach To Stage

Chill autumn winds have come again,

     The bathing season’s o’er;

The gazing young man now has turned

     Him sadly from the shore.

Nantasket nor Revere holds out

     One charm for such as he;

The only joy he now can find

     Is stage variety.

Sept. 21, ‘95

B. Courier,

Sept. 29, ‘95

Nantasket and Revere are both beaches near Boston, Revere being the oldest public beach in the U.S., being established as such in 1895.