Fair Elphin, cease your lament! Swearing profits no-one. It is not evil to hope Nor does any man see what supports him. (Taliesin)

Fair Elphin, cease your lament! Swearing profits no-one. It is not evil to hope Nor does any man see what supports him.

Taliesin

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