When we followed a deer with our baying hounds,

With Bran, Sgeolan, and Lomair,

And passing the Firbolgs’ burial mounds,

Came to the cairn-heaped grassy hill

Where passionate Maeve is stony still;

And found on the dove-gray edge of the sea

A pearl-pale, high-born lady, who rode

On a horse with bridle of findrinny;

And like a sunset were her lips,

A stormy sunset on doomed ships;