"Among the black stone gables
The ghostly shadows lay;
And the moonbeams from the rising moon,
Falling, made them creep away."
"With weary brain and mind opprest,
I stood in the quad and pondered—"
Here it breaks off abruptly; the other is a very fair parody of the Song of Hiawatha, although, of course, some of the allusions are only of local interest. The poem is entitled—
PIAMATER.
By Alfred Longcove.
Should you ask of what I'm writing,