Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Second Book of Modern Verse. 1922.
The Last Piper
D
White winds of the sea,
Are skirling the pibroch
Of Seumas an Righ.
The shrieking of terns,
Are keening his dying
High over the burns.
And wasting of lands
And the wailing of music
Down to the sands,
And trailing of wind,
The waters before him,
The mountains behind,—
Silent he stands,
And the wail of his piping
Cries over the lands,
The drone of the foam,
Where his soul, a white gannet,
Wings silently home.