Come pealing overhead?

“I hear the pibroch’s piercing swell,

The banshee’s scream I hear,

And hark! again that stifled yell—

The boderglas is near!!

“The Boderglas with bloody brow

And tresses dripping red—

I see him at the window now

He shakes his gory head!

“Then, daughter, to thy mother’s arms,