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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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I did not dare go near.
CATHLEEN
God pity them!
Bring all the old and ailing to this house,
For I will have no sorrow of my own
From this day onward.
[The SERVANT goes out. Some of the musicians follow him, some linger in the doorway. The COUNTESS CATHLEEN kneels beside OONA.
Can you tell me, mother,
How I may mend the times, how staunch this wound
That bleeds in the earth, how overturn the famine,
How drive these demons to their darkness again?
OONA
The demons hold our hearts between their hands,
For the apple is in our blood, and though heart break
There is no medicine but Michael’s trump.
Till it has ended parting and old age
And hail and rain and famine and foolish laughter;
The dead are happy, the dust is in their ears.
ACT III
Hall of the COUNTESS CATHLEEN as before. SERVANT enters and goes towards the oratory door.
SERVANT
Here is yet another would see your ladyship.
CATHLEEN [within]
Who calls me?
SERVANT
There is a man would speak with you,
And by his face he has some pressing news,
Some moving tale.
CATHLEEN [coming to chapel door]
I cannot rest or pray,
For all day long the messengers run hither
On one another’s heels, and every message
More evil than the one that had gone before.
Who is the messenger?
SERVANT
Aleel, the poet.
CATHLEEN
There is no hour he is not welcome to me,
Because I know of nothing but a harp-string
That can remember happiness.
[SERVANT goes out and ALEEL comes in.
And now
I grow forgetful of evil for awhile.
ALEEL
I have come to bid you leave this castle, and fly
Out of these woods.
CATHLEEN
What evil is there here,
That is not everywhere from this to the sea?
ALEEL
They who have sent me walk invisible.
CATHLEEN
Men say that the wise people of the raths
Have given you wisdom.
ALEEL
I lay in the dusk
Upon the grassy margin of a lake
Among the hills, where none of mortal creatures
But the swan comes – my sleep became a fire.
One walked in the fire with birds about his head.
CATHLEEN
Ay, Aengus of the birds.
ALEEL
He may be Aengus,
But it may be he bears an angelical name.
CATHLEEN
God pity them!
Bring all the old and ailing to this house,
For I will have no sorrow of my own
From this day onward.
[The SERVANT goes out. Some of the musicians follow him, some linger in the doorway. The COUNTESS CATHLEEN kneels beside OONA.
Can you tell me, mother,
How I may mend the times, how staunch this wound
That bleeds in the earth, how overturn the famine,
How drive these demons to their darkness again?
OONA
The demons hold our hearts between their hands,
For the apple is in our blood, and though heart break
There is no medicine but Michael’s trump.
Till it has ended parting and old age
And hail and rain and famine and foolish laughter;
The dead are happy, the dust is in their ears.
ACT III
Hall of the COUNTESS CATHLEEN as before. SERVANT enters and goes towards the oratory door.
SERVANT
Here is yet another would see your ladyship.
CATHLEEN [within]
Who calls me?
SERVANT
There is a man would speak with you,
And by his face he has some pressing news,
Some moving tale.
CATHLEEN [coming to chapel door]
I cannot rest or pray,
For all day long the messengers run hither
On one another’s heels, and every message
More evil than the one that had gone before.
Who is the messenger?
SERVANT
Aleel, the poet.
CATHLEEN
There is no hour he is not welcome to me,
Because I know of nothing but a harp-string
That can remember happiness.
[SERVANT goes out and ALEEL comes in.
And now
I grow forgetful of evil for awhile.
ALEEL
I have come to bid you leave this castle, and fly
Out of these woods.
CATHLEEN
What evil is there here,
That is not everywhere from this to the sea?
ALEEL
They who have sent me walk invisible.
CATHLEEN
Men say that the wise people of the raths
Have given you wisdom.
ALEEL
I lay in the dusk
Upon the grassy margin of a lake
Among the hills, where none of mortal creatures
But the swan comes – my sleep became a fire.
One walked in the fire with birds about his head.
CATHLEEN
Ay, Aengus of the birds.
ALEEL
He may be Aengus,
But it may be he bears an angelical name.
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