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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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MARTIN [holding up banner]
There it is ready! We are very few now, but the army of the Unicorns will be a great army! [To JOHNNY.] Why have you brought me the message? Can you remember any more? Has anything more come to you? You have been drinking, the clouds upon your mind have been destroyed… Can you see anything or hear anything that is beyond the world?
JOHNNY
I can not. I don’t know what do you want me to tell you at all?
MARTIN
I want to begin the destruction, but I don’t know where to begin.. you do not hear any other voice?
JOHNNY
I do not. I have nothing at all to do with Freemasons or witchcraft.
PAUDEEN
It is Biddy Lally has to do with witchcraft. It is often she threw the cups and gave out prophecies the same as Columcille.
MARTIN
You are one of the knowledgeable women. You can tell me where it is best to begin, and what will happen in the end.
BIDDY
I will foretell nothing at all. I rose out of it this good while, with the stiffness and the swelling it brought upon my joints.
MARTIN
If you have foreknowledge you have no right to keep silent. If you do not help me I may go to work in the wrong way. I know I have to destroy, but when I ask myself what I am to begin with, I am full of uncertainty.
PAUDEEN
Here now are the cups handy and the leavings in them.
BIDDY
[Taking cups and pouring one from another.]
Throw a bit of white money into the four corners of the house.
MARTIN
There! [Throwing it.]
BIDDY
There can be nothing told without silver. It is not myself will have the profit of it. Along with that I will be forced to throw out gold.
MARTIN
There is a guinea for you. Tell me what comes before your eyes.
BIDDY
What is it you are wanting to have news of?
MARTIN
Of what I have to go out against at the beginning.. there is so much.. the whole world it may be.
BIDDY
[Throwing from one cup to another and looking.]
You have no care for yourself. You have been across the sea, you are not long back. You are coming within the best day of your life.
MARTIN
What is it? What is it I have to do?
BIDDY
I see a great smoke, I see burning.. there is a great smoke overhead.
MARTIN
That means we have to burn away a great deal that men have piled up upon the earth. We must bring men once more to the wildness of the clean green earth.
BIDDY
Herbs for my healing, the big herb and the little herb, it is true enough they get their great strength out of the earth.
JOHNNY
Who was it the green sod of Ireland belonged to in the olden times? Wasn’t it to the ancient race it belonged? And who has possession of it now but the race that came robbing over the sea? The meaning of that is to destroy the big houses and the towns, and the fields to be given back to the ancient race.
MARTIN
That is it. You don’t put it as I do, but what matter? Battle is all.
PAUDEEN
Columcille said, the four corners to be burned, and then the middle of the field to be burned. I tell you it was Columcille’s prophecy said that.
BIDDY
Iron handcuffs I see and a rope and a gallows, and it maybe is not for yourself I see it, but for some I have acquaintance with a good way back.
There it is ready! We are very few now, but the army of the Unicorns will be a great army! [To JOHNNY.] Why have you brought me the message? Can you remember any more? Has anything more come to you? You have been drinking, the clouds upon your mind have been destroyed… Can you see anything or hear anything that is beyond the world?
JOHNNY
I can not. I don’t know what do you want me to tell you at all?
MARTIN
I want to begin the destruction, but I don’t know where to begin.. you do not hear any other voice?
JOHNNY
I do not. I have nothing at all to do with Freemasons or witchcraft.
PAUDEEN
It is Biddy Lally has to do with witchcraft. It is often she threw the cups and gave out prophecies the same as Columcille.
MARTIN
You are one of the knowledgeable women. You can tell me where it is best to begin, and what will happen in the end.
BIDDY
I will foretell nothing at all. I rose out of it this good while, with the stiffness and the swelling it brought upon my joints.
MARTIN
If you have foreknowledge you have no right to keep silent. If you do not help me I may go to work in the wrong way. I know I have to destroy, but when I ask myself what I am to begin with, I am full of uncertainty.
PAUDEEN
Here now are the cups handy and the leavings in them.
BIDDY
[Taking cups and pouring one from another.]
Throw a bit of white money into the four corners of the house.
MARTIN
There! [Throwing it.]
BIDDY
There can be nothing told without silver. It is not myself will have the profit of it. Along with that I will be forced to throw out gold.
MARTIN
There is a guinea for you. Tell me what comes before your eyes.
BIDDY
What is it you are wanting to have news of?
MARTIN
Of what I have to go out against at the beginning.. there is so much.. the whole world it may be.
BIDDY
[Throwing from one cup to another and looking.]
You have no care for yourself. You have been across the sea, you are not long back. You are coming within the best day of your life.
MARTIN
What is it? What is it I have to do?
BIDDY
I see a great smoke, I see burning.. there is a great smoke overhead.
MARTIN
That means we have to burn away a great deal that men have piled up upon the earth. We must bring men once more to the wildness of the clean green earth.
BIDDY
Herbs for my healing, the big herb and the little herb, it is true enough they get their great strength out of the earth.
JOHNNY
Who was it the green sod of Ireland belonged to in the olden times? Wasn’t it to the ancient race it belonged? And who has possession of it now but the race that came robbing over the sea? The meaning of that is to destroy the big houses and the towns, and the fields to be given back to the ancient race.
MARTIN
That is it. You don’t put it as I do, but what matter? Battle is all.
PAUDEEN
Columcille said, the four corners to be burned, and then the middle of the field to be burned. I tell you it was Columcille’s prophecy said that.
BIDDY
Iron handcuffs I see and a rope and a gallows, and it maybe is not for yourself I see it, but for some I have acquaintance with a good way back.
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