And yet, because I love thee, I obtainFrom that same love this vindicating grace,To live on still in love, and yet in vain
And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.
Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and the Fianna of Ireland
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And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.
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