Making full many a clanging tin pan bowl

Into the black below-bunks as it gushed.

The dog-tired men slept through it; they were hushed.

The water drained, and then with matches damp

The man struck heads off till he lit the lamp.

"Thank you," the Dauber said; the seaman grinned.

"This is your first foul weather?" "Yes." "I thought

Up on the yard you hadn't seen much wind.

Them's rotten sea-boots, Dauber, that you brought.

Now I must cut on deck before I'm caught."