The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-28

At the wedding Of Shon Mclean
They blew with lungs of leather,
And blithesome was the strain
Those pipers played together!
Moist with the mountain dew,
Mighty with bone and thew, r
Each with a bonnet O. blue
Tartan, and blackjack feather,
And every piper was flu,
Twenty piperS together! ,.a
Oh for a magic tongue to tell
OF all the wonders that befel!
And how the duke when the first stave
died,
Reached up on tiptoe to kiss the bride,
While Sandys pipes, as their mouths were
meeting,
Skirrd and set every heart abeating.
Then Sh 1G took the pipes! and all was
AS silently the bags did fill:
With flaming cheeks and round bright
TIL the first faint music began to rise
Like a thousand laverocks singing in
Like countless corn-craiks under the
moon;
Like the smack of kisses like sweet
bells ringing,
Like mermaid's harp or a keInie singing
Blew the pipes of Shon; and the witch
Was the gathering song of the Clan
Then slowly, gently, at his side,
All the p1pers around replied
And sWelled the glorious strain:
~ ne h near Is or an We're proud and light
And the dukes own eyes were dim that
night, via
At the wedding of shon Maclean.
So to honor the Clan MacIean
Straight they began to gather
Blowing the wild refrain.
blue bonnets across the heather!'
Ihey stamped. they strutted, they
They shriekd like cocks that crew:
BioWlng the notes out true
WIN wonderful lungs of leathery
- And every piper was fu',
Twenty pipes together
Mnen the duke and duchess went away
Inc dance grew mad and the fun grew
gay;
Man and maiden, face to face.
Leapt and footed and screamed apace!
Round and round the dancers whirle'd,
Shriller and shriIler the piners sl.irpd
Till the soul seemed sW0oning INTO
sound,
-, And all creation was whirling round.
linen, in pause Of the dance and glee.
The pipers. ceasing. their minstreIsies
Draining the glass in groups did stand
Anu passed the snuff-box from hand
Sandy Of Isla, with locks of snow,
squirting Shamus, Blind Kilmahoe,
F1nlay Beg, and Earach More.
Dougal Dhu of Kilfannan shore
All the cOlors that ever were seen.
al the pipers of all the Macs,
Gatnered together and took their eraclys
Then (no man knows how the thing hefaI
For none was sober enough to teII.
Inese heavenly pipers from twenty
places ""'S
Began disputing with crimson faces;
Each asserting like one demented.
Inc claims of the clan he represented
In vain gray Sandy of Isla strove
10 so1 G their struggle with words OF
Asserting there. like gentleman.
me NJ, superior claims of his own great clan:
linen finding to reason is to desDair
he SEXES his pipes and he plays an air
Inc gathering time of his cian-and tries
10 drown in music the shrieks and cries
heavens! Every piper, grown mad with
seizes his pipes with fierce desire.
ana blowing madly, with flourish ana
Begins his particular tune to shriekI
Up and down the gamut thew GO.
twenty pipers all in a row
Each with different strain.
Eacn tries hard to drown the first
Each blows louder till like to burst.
linus we Were the tunes of the Claus re-
AT the wedding Of Shon Maeleanl
At the wedding Of Shon MacIean.
Twenty pipers together,
Blowing with might and main
Thro, wonderful lungs Of leather:
Wild was the hullabalool
Ihey strutted, they screamed, they
Twenty wild strains they blew,
Holding the heart in tether
And every piper was flu
Twenty pipers together.