They answer me with tearful voice—

“Alas! is not MacEachainn dead?”

I see the gathering of the poor—

Now poor indeed since thou art dead,

And closed for aye the open door

Where Love consoled and Bounty fed!

And strangers now are praised to me

As lib’ral—I knew only one

But ah! the wandering stars we see

After the setting of the sun!