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DEIRDRÊ
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To the land of the Ultonians there came on the morrow a mighty host, and the Red Branch was wiped out for ever. Emain Macha was cast into ruins, and Conor died in a madness of sorrow.
And still, in that land of Erin where she died, still in the lonely cleuchs and glens, and up the mist-hung mountain sides of Loch Etive, where she knew her truest happiness, we can sometimes almost hear the wind sighing the lament: "Deirdrê the beautiful is dead … is dead!"
"I hear a voice crying, crying, crying: is it the wind
"I hear, crying its old weary cry time out of mind?
"The grey wind weeps, the grey wind weeps, the grey wind weeps:
"Dust on her breast, dust on her eyes, the grey wind weeps."
