Midnight
We passed the keeper of the second watch , rubbing his eyes as he came up . We gave him the flask and the Petrarch . Then , before retiring , we briefly entered the locker-room below , which was full of chains , heavy weights , metal tanks , and rope . By the light of his small lamp , the keeper wrote in the large lighthouse log , always left open at the last entry : _ Midnight . Heavy seas . Tempest . Ship at sea _ .