And watched along the gleaming High

The lovers strolling with their mates.

He only said, "The schools are dreary:

This Euclid racks my head.

Ethics are the reverse of cheery;

I shall be ploughed," he said.

And half asleep he heard forlorn

The caterwauling on the roof;

The chapel bell rung out at morn

Came to him—but he held aloof.