“In music, in warfare, in song—
With bagpipes and banners unfurled,
Like a torrid simoom borne along,
The Highlanders lighten the world.”
CHAPTER VI.
The “Language” of the Pipes.
“Wild as the desert stream they flow,
Wandering along it’s mazy bed;
Now scarcely moving, deep and slow,
Now in a swifter current led,
And now along the level lawn