"This is the strangest thing that befell between two seas," said the King's daughter of Duntrine .
But the nurse broke out and moaned like an autumn gale. "I am weary of the wind," quoth she; and she bewailed her day.
The King's daughter was aware of a man upon the beach; he went hooded so that none might perceive his face, and a pipe was underneath his arm. The sound of his pipe was like singing wasps, and like the wind that sings in windlestraw ; and it took hold upon men's ears like the crying of gulls.
"Are you the comer?" quoth the King's daughter of Duntrine.
"I am the corner," said he, "and these are the pipes that a man may hear, and I have power upon the hour, and this is the song of the morrow." And he piped the song of the morrow, and it was as long as years; and the nurse w
