Arnaut Daniel (1150–1210) Occitan troubadour
"Ab gai so cundet e leri", line 12; translation by Leonardo Malcovati http://www.trobar.org/troubadours/arnaut_daniel/arnaut_daniel_04.php
“Tell him I lingered alone on the shore,
Where we parted, in sorrow, to meet nevermore;
The night-wind blew cold on my desolate heart
But colder those wild words of doom,—“Ye must part.””
Our Island of Dreams.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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