Ossian Collection > Deirdre of the sorrows

and I'd do wrong taking it bad when it'll be my share
from this out to keep you the way you'll have little
call to trouble for knowledge, or its want either.
DEIRDRE
Yourself should be wise surely ?
CONCHUBOR
The like of me has a store of knowledge that's a
weight and terror. It's for that we do choose out the
like of yourself that are young and glad only ....
I'm thinking you are gay and lively each day in the
year ?
DEIRDRE
There are lonesome days and bad nights in this place
like another.
CONCHUBOR
You should have as few sad days I'm thinking, as I
have glad and good ones.
DEIRDRE
What isithasyouthatway evercomingthis place,
when you'dheartheold woman sayingagood child's
as happy as a king ?
CONCHUBOR
How would I be happy seeing age coming on me
each year, when the dry leaves are blowing back and
forward at the gate of Emain ? And yet this last while
I'm saying out, when I see the furze breaking and
the daws sitting two and two on ash-trees by the
Duns of Emain, Deirdre's a year nearer her full age
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