She never could have played so, being a woman,

If she had not the cold sea’s blood in her.

DEIRDRE.

I have heard the ever-living warn mankind

By changing clouds and casual accidents

Or what seem so.

NAISI.

Stood th’ ever-living there,

Old Lir and Aengus from his glassy tower,

And that hill-haunting Bodb to warn us hence,—