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Quotation from Cuchulain of Muirthemne by Lady Gregory
“Dear to me was your beautiful ruddiness; dear to me your comely form; dear to me your clear grey eye; dear to me your wisdom and your talk.”
Cuchulain of Muirthemne, The War for the Bull of Cuailgne (lament for Ferdiad) (1907 John Murray edition (Internet Archive scan))
Standing over his foster-brother after the combat at the ford, Cuchulain keens for him.
Citation: "Dear to me was your beautiful ruddiness; dear to me your comely form; dear to me your clear grey eye; dear to me your wisdom and your talk." — Lady Gregory, Cuchulain of Muirthemne, The War for the Bull of Cuailgne (lament for Ferdiad) (1907 John Murray edition (Internet Archive scan)). (id cuchulain-of-muirthemne-q6)
Portrait: Cuchulainn's death, illustration by Stephen Reid 1904, Stephen Reid, Public domain.
