Of the heart than of the ear,
She knew the droning pibroch,
She knew the Campbell’s call;
“Hark! hear ye no’ MacGregor’s,
The grandest o’ them all!”
O they listened, dumb and breathless,
And they caught the sound at last;
Faint and far beyond the Goomtee
Rose and fell the piper’s blast!
Then a burst of wild thanksgiving