The seashore can prosper

The seashore can prosper and bloom
    through wintry storms
amid wave-blown spume
    on rocky peninsular
each elemental force
    thrown like the buffets of fate
from titanic hands
    that drew the shrewd design

a trial of character
    to strengthen the will
for a foothold
    on things that matter most
ready for the budding days
    to be met with springy step
having won
    through pertinacity and hardihood
a purchase on the providential
            habitat
    that is this Earth

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