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Quotation from Cuchulain of Muirthemne by Lady Gregory
“My love to you, O land to the east, and it goes ill with me to leave you; for it is pleasant are your bays and your harbours and your wide flowery plains and your green-sided hills; and little need was there for us to leave you.”
Cuchulain of Muirthemne, Fate of the Sons of Usnach (the farewell to Alban) (1907 John Murray edition (Internet Archive scan))
As the ship carries Deirdre and the sons of Usnach back toward Ireland, she looks back at Scotland and laments leaving it.
Citation: "My love to you, O land to the east, and it goes ill with me to leave you; for it is pleasant are your bays and your harbours and your wide flowery plains and your green-sided hills; and little need was there for us to leave you." — Lady Gregory, Cuchulain of Muirthemne, Fate of the Sons of Usnach (the farewell to Alban) (1907 John Murray edition (Internet Archive scan)). (id cuchulain-of-muirthemne-q5)
Portrait: Cuchulainn's death, illustration by Stephen Reid 1904, Stephen Reid, Public domain.
