"Give Me Strength," by Rabindranath Tagore

Beside the Ocean With a Baby

  for Henry

I'm sitting next to the ocean
in San Diego, a year-old baby
on my lap.

White-edged waves
roll over surfers' heads
like ripples of cream.

A mesmerizing dream,
the sea, at its edge.
The baby and I

Listen and see. We
watch and hear. We
feel the wind.

A cormorant glides
down--from where?--lands on
blue-grey glassy water.

"What the Old Man Said to Us," by Hans Ostrom, read by Roger Illsley

 Short poem with video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaFa5xCZKXE