For never yet
Has lover lived, but longed to wive
Like them that are no more alive.


In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age (ed. 1903)


For never yet Has lover lived, but longed to wive Like them that are no more alive.

For never yet Has lover lived, but longed to wive Like them that are no more alive.

For never yet Has lover lived, but longed to wive Like them that are no more alive.

For never yet Has lover lived, but longed to wive Like them that are no more alive.