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.