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118 Above the wet dark of the deep brown grave,

For the warm loves that made my memory glad."

And her old nurse bent down and took a wild

Curl from her eye and hung it on her ear,

And said, "The woman at the heavy quern,

Who weeps that she will never bring a child,

And sees her sadness in the coming year,

Will roll up all her beauty like a fern;

Not you, whose years stretch purple to the end."

And Findebar, "Beside the broad blue bend

Of the slow river where the dark banks slope

Wide to the woods sleeps Ferdia apart.