My haunting poem

[harrytabby]

I have been trying for years to find the full text of a poem, one verse of which is something like:-
"Out across the hilltops I heard the strangest singing.
It sounded like the music of wild pipes far away.
Then I saw a flock of swallows go a-winging
And I knew the music was the winds of March at play".

Some of the words may be incorrect, but the rhyming appears to be OK.
I would be very grateful indeed if someone knows this poem and the author and can tell me.
From Harrytabby, aged 82+.

[taize]

The Pipes at Lucknow by John Greenleaf Whittier?

[harrytabby]

Thanks, Taize for your response. Sadly, the poet, John Greenleaf Whittier is not the one. I have scoured all his poems to no effect.
It sound "Wordsworthian" but I have his collected Odes and Poems etc which do not include my verse.
Thanks again,
Harrytabby

[poortony]

I am sure you have done what I am suggesting,
try googling it - say the first line of it. There are
a number to things about My Haunting on google.

Hope you succeed

[vinefivebel]

I've seen, in a daily paper, maybe Daily Express, a bit where people send in bits of remembered poems and they find the poem for you.
I live in Scotland so it would be a Scottish paper.
Good luck with your search.

[taliesin238]

This reminds me of an abba tune (here me out before u mock yes i know its abba). Something about a pied piper coming over the hills or something!! Cheesy tune but i loved it and the lyrics really made my imagination stir when i was a kid!!!!
Must google this one...no... i'll AMG it!!!

[vinefivebel]

I found the bit in the Daily Express that I told you about.
You can write to:
Forgotten Verse
c/o William Hartston
Daily Express
No. 10 Lower Thames Street
London EC3R 6EN
or email:
[email protected]
Hope this brings a result!

[harrytabby]

Many thanks indeed, vinefivebel.
I am going to email william hartston immediately.
I'll let you know
Harrytabby

[harrytabby]

Thanks vinefivebel. I emailed William Hartston but have had no response to date (9th November 2007)
Harrytabby

[muriella]

Ref. The song 'Sailor' as in the daily express 18th july. Although you said it was Petula Clarke who sang this song in 1961. R Chambers from Ulverston asked who it was who sang this in the 40's or 50's. It was Anne Shelton.