Excerpt from The Story of a Round-House, and Other Poems

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Four bells were struck, the watch was called on deck,

All work aboard was over for the hour,

And some men sang and others played at check,

Or mended clothes or watched the sunset glower.

The bursting west was like an opening flower,

And one man watched it till the light was dim,

But no one went across to talk to him.

He was the painter in that swift ship's crew,

Lampman and painter - tall, a slight-built man,

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