midnight
Once more I had visited the home of my childhood . What a blank I had found ! My lot has been that of thousands of seamen -- of thousands of poor wanderers over the face of the globe , of every rank and in every clime . It is the tale which many and many a shipmate has told me in our midnight watch : -- `` I got back to the place where I was born . I thought to find it a home , but most of those I left were dead ! the rest removed . All were gone .