The text given by the Walrus, as well as the one here, has "lookin' eastward to the sea" in the first line, whereas _Rudyard Kipling's Verse: Definitive Edition_ (Doubleday, 1940, p. 416) has "lookin' lazy at the sea" both there and in the last stanza. The "eastward" reading is extremely common, and it would be interesting to know where it came from, in that it adds to the geographical perplexity of this song, which has been much argued over.