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The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats. Volume 3 of 8. The Countess Cathleen. The Land of Heart's Desire. The Unicorn from the Stars
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The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats. Volume 3 of 8. The Countess Cathleen. The Land of Heart's Desire. The Unicorn from the Stars
William Yeats
William Butler Yeats
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 3 (of 8) / The Countess Cathleen. The Land of Heart's Desire. The / Unicorn from the Stars
THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN
‘The sorrowful are dumb for thee.’
Lament of Morion Shehone for Miss Mary Bourke.
To Maud Gonne.
PERSONS IN THE PLAY
Shemus Rua, a peasant
Teig, his son
Aleel, a young bard
Maurteen, a gardener
The Countess Cathleen
Oona, her foster-mother
Maire, wife of Shemus Rua
Two Demons disguised as merchants
Musicians
Peasants, Servants, &c.
Angelical Beings, Spirits, and Faeries
The scene is laid in Ireland, and in old times
THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN
ACT I
The cottage of SHEMUS REA. The door into the open air is at right side of room. There is a window at one side of the door, and a little shrine of the Virgin Mother at the other. At the back is a door opening into a bedroom, and at the left side of the room a pantry door. A wood of oak, beech, hazel, and quicken is seen through the window half hidden in vapour and twilight. MAIRE watches TEIG, who fills a pot with water. He stops as if to listen, and spills some of the water.
MAIRE
You are all thumbs.
TEIG
Hear how the dog bays, mother,
And how the gray hen flutters in the coop.
Strange things are going up and down the land,
These famine times: by Tubber-vanach crossroads
A woman met a man with ears spread out,
And they moved up and down like wings of bats.
MAIRE
Shemus stays late.
TEIG
By Carrick-orus churchyard,
A herdsman met a man who had no mouth,
Nor ears, nor eyes: his face a wall of flesh;
He saw him plainly by the moon.
MAIRE
[Going over to the little shrine.]
White Mary,
Bring Shemus home out of the wicked woods;
Save Shemus from the wolves; Shemus is daring;
And save him from the demons of the woods,
Who have crept out and wander on the roads,
Deluding dim-eyed souls now newly dead,
And those alive who have gone crazed with famine.
Save him, White Mary Virgin.
TEIG
And but now
I thought I heard far-off tympans and harps.
[Knocking at the door.
MAIRE
Shemus has come.
TEIG
May he bring better food
Than the lean crow he brought us yesterday.
William Yeats
William Butler Yeats
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 3 (of 8) / The Countess Cathleen. The Land of Heart's Desire. The / Unicorn from the Stars
THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN
‘The sorrowful are dumb for thee.’
Lament of Morion Shehone for Miss Mary Bourke.
To Maud Gonne.
PERSONS IN THE PLAY
Shemus Rua, a peasant
Teig, his son
Aleel, a young bard
Maurteen, a gardener
The Countess Cathleen
Oona, her foster-mother
Maire, wife of Shemus Rua
Two Demons disguised as merchants
Musicians
Peasants, Servants, &c.
Angelical Beings, Spirits, and Faeries
The scene is laid in Ireland, and in old times
THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN
ACT I
The cottage of SHEMUS REA. The door into the open air is at right side of room. There is a window at one side of the door, and a little shrine of the Virgin Mother at the other. At the back is a door opening into a bedroom, and at the left side of the room a pantry door. A wood of oak, beech, hazel, and quicken is seen through the window half hidden in vapour and twilight. MAIRE watches TEIG, who fills a pot with water. He stops as if to listen, and spills some of the water.
MAIRE
You are all thumbs.
TEIG
Hear how the dog bays, mother,
And how the gray hen flutters in the coop.
Strange things are going up and down the land,
These famine times: by Tubber-vanach crossroads
A woman met a man with ears spread out,
And they moved up and down like wings of bats.
MAIRE
Shemus stays late.
TEIG
By Carrick-orus churchyard,
A herdsman met a man who had no mouth,
Nor ears, nor eyes: his face a wall of flesh;
He saw him plainly by the moon.
MAIRE
[Going over to the little shrine.]
White Mary,
Bring Shemus home out of the wicked woods;
Save Shemus from the wolves; Shemus is daring;
And save him from the demons of the woods,
Who have crept out and wander on the roads,
Deluding dim-eyed souls now newly dead,
And those alive who have gone crazed with famine.
Save him, White Mary Virgin.
TEIG
And but now
I thought I heard far-off tympans and harps.
[Knocking at the door.
MAIRE
Shemus has come.
TEIG
May he bring better food
Than the lean crow he brought us yesterday.
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