Some sail the ocean, voyaging wide,
daring danger with youthful pride,
run with the wind or drift with the tide:
adventure is the fuel.

Some plunge the ocean, diving deep,
beyond safe light where creatures creep
unknown to men who aim to keep
discovery as their rule.

Some travel wide and deep as well,
heroes indeed as legends tell,
who enter heaven via hell,
their fame bright as a jewel.

Others are timid and stay at home
content to foster instead of roam,
preferring shallows to ocean foam -
Who's for a dip in the pool ?