And the wrong and shame we dread.”

O they listened, looked, and waited,

Till their hope became despair;

And the sobs of [low bewailing]

Filled the pauses of their prayer.

Then up spake a Scottish maiden,

With her ear unto the ground:

“Dinna ye hear it?—dinna ye hear it?

The pipes o’ Havelock sound!”

Hushed the wounded man his groaning;