Classic Poem

Oh, Eleazar Wheelock was a very pious man:
He went into the wilderness to teach the Indian,
With a gradus ad Parnassum , a Bible and a drum,
And five hundred gallons of New England rum.

Fill the bowl! Fill the bowl!
And drink to Eleazar
And his primitive Alcazar ,
Where he mixed drinks for the heathen
In the goodness of his soul .

The big chief who met him was the Sachem of the Wah-hoo-wahs.
If he was not a big chief, there was never one you saw who was;
He had tobacco by the cord, ten squaws, and more to come,
But he never yet had tasted of New England rum.

Eleazar and the big chief harangued and gesticulated;
And they founded Dartmouth College and the big chief matriculated.
Eleazar was the faculty and the whole curriculum
Was five hundred gallons of New England rum.