And when he took His clarsach, from the magic strings he shook A maze of trembling music, falling sweet As mossy waters in the summer heat; And soft as fainting moor-winds when they leave The fume of myrtle, on a dewy eve, Bound flush'd and teeming tarns that all night hear Low elfin pipings in the woodlands near.

One afternoon, at the end of the month, when Old Pipes had finished his piping, he took his stout staff and went down the hill to the village to receive the money for his month's work.

As for Elspeth, she sang to a soft Scots tune the tale of the Lady of Cassilis who followed the gipsy's piping.

He loved thy piping so. PIPER

Continue making pipings of Carnation, plant out, or transplant hardy perennials into the borders.

No wonder he prologued his piping after the following dismal fashion: "In dreary verse my rhymes I make, Bewailing whilst such theme I take.

I've got to raise the piping out of a two-hundred-foot well to-day,something the matter with the valve at the bottom.

The morning shines, Nor heedeth Man's perverseness; Spring returns, I saw the Spring return, and could rejoice, In common with the children of her love, Piping on boughs, or sporting on fresh fields, 35 Or boldly seeking pleasure nearer heaven On wings that navigate cerulean skies.

as I did look toward it, I heard a faraway sound in the dark, as that something did set up a strange and monstrous piping in the night.

Even song birds had stilled their pipings, and made but brief flights through the sultry air.

The quail has hardly ceased piping in the corn when winter, from the folds of trailing clouds, sows broadcast over the land snow, icicles, and rattling hail.

And odd whiles the sounds to be as of great monsters; and the earth to shake under us; and other-whiles there to be a hush and only the steam about us, and somewhere in the distance and uncertainness a low piping of some steam cranny, very strange and lonesome-sounding.