| Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Second Book of Modern Verse. 1922. |
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| The Last Piper |
| | | Edward J. O’Brien |
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| DARK winds of the mountain, | |
| White winds of the sea, | |
| Are skirling the pibroch | |
| Of Seumas an Righ. | |
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| The crying of gannets, | 5 |
| The shrieking of terns, | |
| Are keening his dying | |
| High over the burns. | |
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| Grey silence of waters | |
| And wasting of lands | 10 |
| And the wailing of music | |
| Down to the sands, | |
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| The wailing of music, | |
| And trailing of wind, | |
| The waters before him, | 15 |
| The mountains behind,— | |
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| Alone at the gathering, | |
| Silent he stands, | |
| And the wail of his piping | |
| Cries over the lands, | 20 |
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| To the moan of the waters, | |
| The drone of the foam, | |
| Where his soul, a white gannet, | |
| Wings silently home. | |
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