Opening stanza of "Dogtown Common"
by Percy MacKaye

Inland among the lonely cedar dells
Of old Cape Ann, near Gloucester by the sea,
Still live the dead—in homes that used to be.
All day in dreamy spells 
They tattle low with tongues of tinkling cattle bells, 
Or spirit tappings of some hollow tree,
And there, all night—
all night, out of the dark—
They bark—and bark.