Related Clues:

• "I heard him exclaim ___ he drove ..."
• Long start, of old
• Emily Dickinson's 'Ended, ___ it begun'
• Up until, in poetry
• Lead-in to long
• "___ he drove out of sight..."
• Prior to, to bards
• Before, long before now
• Before (literary)
• Before, in romantic poetry
• Long introduction of yore?
• Prior to, to a bard
• Sooner than, in sonnets
• ''Macbeth'' preposition
• "Able was I ___ ..."