DOWN ON THE SHORE
Down on the shore, on the sunny shore!
Where the salt smell cheers the land;
Where the tide moves bright under boundless light,
And the surge on the glittering strand;
Where the children wade in the shallow pools,
Or run from the froth in play;
Where the swift little boats with milk-white wings
Are crossing the sapphire bay,
And the ship in full sail, with a fortunate gale,
Holds proudy on her way;
Where the nets are spread on the grass to dry,
And asleep, hard by, the fishermen lie,
Under the tent of the warm blue sky,
With the hushing wave on its golden floor
To sing their lullaby.
Down on the shore, on the stormy shore!
Beset by a growling sea,
Whose mad waves leap on the rocky steep
Like wolves up a traveller's tree;
Where the foam flies wide, and an angry blast
Blows the curlew off, with a screech;
Where the brown sea-wrack, torn up by the roots,
Is flung out of fishes' reach;
And the tall ship rolls on the hidden shoals,
And scatters her planks on the beach;
Where slate and straw through the village spin,
And a cottage fronts the fiercest din
With a sailor's wife sitting sad within,
Hearkening the wind and the water's roar,
Till at last her tears begin.
***STARFISH***
Sea stars are echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea. The names "sea star" and
"starfish" are sometimes differentiated, with "starfish" used in a broader sense to include
the closely related brittle stars, which make up the class Ophiuroidea, as well as excluding
sea stars which do not have five arms (have Many arms), such as the sun stars and cushion
stars.
Sea stars exhibit a superficially radial symmetry. They typically have five "arms" which
radiate from a central disk (pentaradial symmetry). However, the evolutionary ancestors of
echinoderms are believed to have had bilateral symmetry. Sea stars do exhibit some
superficial remnant of this body structure, evident in their larval pluteus forms.
Sea stars do not rely on a jointed, movable skeleton for support and locomotion (although
they are protected by their skeleton), but instead possess a hydraulic water vascular system
that aids in locomotion. The water vascular system has many projections called tube feet on
the ventral face of the sea star's arms which function in locomotion and aid with feeding.
Sea stars usually hunt for shelled animals such as oysters and clams. They have two
stomachs. One stomach is used for digestion, and the second stomach can be extended outward
to engulf and digest prey. This feature allows the sea star to hunt prey that is much larger
than its mouth would otherwise allow. Sea stars are able to regenerate lost arms. A new sea
star may be regenerated from a single arm attached to a portion of the central disk.
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