Isle of Man -- Fiction; World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
_The mackerel fishers of Kinsdale (simple, but imaginative and often
religious men, belonging to many nationalities--Irish, Scotch,
French, and even German) have been deeply touched by the fate of the
young lovers who, finding their love doomed by the hatred between
their races, and nothing left to them in life, preferred death to
separation. A few days ago they asked permission to bury the bodies,
and yesterday they did so, choosing as the place of rest the summit of
Cape Clear, which looks out on the Atlantic. To-day they have built
over the spot a broad and lofty cairn, which will henceforth be the
first thing seen by the passengers on the great liners who are coming
in from the New World to the Old, and the last by those who are going
out from the Old World to the New._--The Times.
“_Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.... Many
waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it._”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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