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Since as in night's deck-watch ye show, / Why, lads, so silent here to me, / Your watchmate of times long ago?
Once, for all the darkling sea, / You your voices raised how clearly, / Striking in when tempest sung; / Hoisting up the storm-sail cheerly, / _Life is storm-let storm! _ you rung.