Little Boy at the Nore!

LITTLE BOY AT THE NORE LOQUITUR.

I’m the tight little Boy at the Nore,

In a sort of sea negus I dwells;

Half and half ’twixt saltwater and Port,

I’m reckon’d the first of the swells—

I’m the Boy at the Nore!

I lives with my toes to the flounders,

And watches through long days and nights;

Yet, cruelly eager, men look—