Since life’s a vapor, smoke it all away!
Let us alone. We have no strength to row,
We won’t attempt it, anyhow, to-day.
Let us alone. What fun can sailors find
In climbing up a wave, and down behind?
All folks have rest excepting only tars,
Their work is always of the endless kind;—
Give us a smoke or sleep, sound sleep or good cigars!
IV.
How sweet it were, seeing the rising fog,