A fierce wind swept across the plain,

The stately corn was snapt in twain.

They crushed in blood the hated race,

The hated race. Ah me! Ah me!

I only clasped a cold, blind face,

His cold, dead face. Ah me!

A blood-red ring hangs in my sight,

I hear the Loon cry every night.


AGNES MAULE MACHAR