Written with little skill of song-craft,
Homely phrases, but each letter
Full of hope and yet of heart-break,
Full of all the tender pathos
Of the Here and the Hereafter;—
Stay and read this rude inscription,
Read this Song of Hiawatha!
It is in sentences like the following that the pupil is likely to fail. Speaking of rain, the poet says:
How it clatters along the roofs,
Like the tramp of hoofs!