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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Land Of Heart's Desire (Little Blue
+Book#335), by W.B. Yeats
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+Title: The Land Of Heart's Desire (Little Blue Book#335)
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+Author: W.B. Yeats
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+Release Date: February 23, 2005 [EBook #15153]
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+LITTLE BLUE BOOK NO. 335
+Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius
+
+The Land of
+Heart's Desire
+
+W.B. Yeats
+
+
+HALDEMAN-JULIUS COMPANY
+GIRARD, KANSAS
+
+
+
+
+PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
+
+
+
+
+THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE
+
+
+
+
+PERSONS
+
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+SHAWN BRUIN.
+FATHER HART.
+BRIDGET BRUIN.
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+A FAERY CHILD.
+
+_The scene is laid in the Barony of Kilmacowen
+in the county of Sligo, and the time is the
+end of Eighteenth Century. The
+characters are supposed to
+speak in Gaelic._
+
+
+
+
+THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE
+
+
+    _The kitchen of_ MAURTEEN BRAIN'S _house. An open grate with a turf
+    fire is at the left side of the room, with a table in front of it.
+    There is a door leading to the open air at the back, and another door
+    a little to its left, leading into an inner room. There is a window, a
+    settle, and a large dresser on the right side of the room, and a great
+    bowl of primroses on the sill of the window._ MAURTEEN BRUIN, FATHER
+    HART; _and_ BRIDGET BRUIN _are sitting at the table._ SHAWN BRUIN _is
+    setting the table for supper._ MAIRE BRUIN _sits on the settle reading
+    a yellow manuscript._
+
+
+BRIDGET BRUIN.
+
+Because I bade her go and feed the calves,
+She took that old book down out of the thatch
+And has been doubled over it all day.
+We would be deafened by her groans and moans
+Had she to work as some do, Father Hart,
+Get up at dawn like me, and mend and scour;
+Or ride abroad in the boisterous night like you,
+The pyx and blessed bread under your arm.
+
+SHAWN BRUIN.
+
+You are too cross.
+
+BRIDGET BRUIN.
+
+The young side with the young.
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+She quarrels with my wife a bit at times,
+And is too deep just now in the old book;
+But do not blame her greatly; she will grow
+As quiet as a puff-ball in a tree
+When but the moons of marriage dawn and die
+For half a score of times.
+
+FATHER HART
+
+            Their hearts are wild
+As be the hearts of birds, till children come.
+
+BRIDGET BRUIN.
+
+She would not mind the griddle, milk the cow,
+Or even lay the knives and spread the cloth.
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+I never saw her read a book before:
+What may it be?
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+            I do not rightly know:
+It has been in the thatch for fifty years.
+My father told me my grandfather wrote it,
+Killed a red heifer and bound it with the hide.
+But draw your chair this way--supper is spread;
+And little good he got out of the book,
+Because it filled his house with roaming bards,
+And roaming ballad-makers and the like,
+And wasted all his goods.--Here is the wine;
+The griddle bread's beside you, Father Hart.
+Colleen, what have you got there in the book
+That you must leave the bread to cool? Had I,
+Or had my father, read or written books
+There were no stockings full of silver and gold
+To come, when I am dead, to Shawn and you.
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+You should not fill your head with foolish dreams.
+What are you reading?
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+            How a Princess Edene,
+A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard
+A voice singing on a May eve like this,
+And followed, half awake and half asleep,
+Until she came into the land of faery,
+Where nobody gets old and godly and grave,
+Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise,
+Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue;
+And she is still there, busied with a dance.
+Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood,
+Or where stars walk upon a mountain top.
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+Persuade the colleen to put by the book:
+My grandfather would mutter just such things,
+And he was no judge of a dog or horse,
+And any idle boy could blarney him.
+Just speak your mind.
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+            Put it away, my colleen.
+God spreads the heavens above us like great wings,
+And gives a little round of deeds and days,
+And then come the wrecked angels and set snares,
+And bait them with light hopes and heavy dreams,
+Until the heart is puffed with pride and goes,
+Half shuddering and half joyous, from God's peace;
+And it was some wrecked angel, blind tears,
+Who flattered Edene's heart with merry words.
+My colleen, I have seen some other girls
+Restless and ill at ease, but years went by
+And they grew like their neighbours and were glad
+In minding children, working at the churn,
+And gossiping of weddings and of wakes;
+For life moves out of a red flare of dreams
+Into a common light of common hours,
+Until old age bring the red flare again.
+
+SHAWN BRUIN.
+
+Yet do not blame her greatly, Father Hart, For she is dull while I am in
+the fields, And mother's tongue were harder still to bear, But for her
+fancies: this is May Eve too, When the good people post about the world,
+And surely one may think of them to-night. Maire, have you the primroses
+to fling Before the door to make a golden path For them to bring good luck
+into the house. Remember, they may steal new-married brides Upon May Eve.
+
+MAIRE BRUIN _(going over to the window and taking the flowers from the
+bowl.)_
+
+Here are the primroses.
+
+    [_She goes to the door and strews the primroses outside._
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+You do well, daughter, because God permits
+Great power to the good people on May Eve.
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+They can work all their will with primroses--
+Change them to golden money, or little flames
+To burn up those who do them any wrong.
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+I had no sooner flung them by the door
+Than the wind cried and hurried them away.
+
+BRIDGET BRUIN.
+
+May God have mercy on us!
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+            The good people
+Will not be lucky to the house this year,
+But I am glad that I was courteous to them,
+For are not they, likewise, children of God?
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+No, child; they are the children of the fiend,
+And they have power until the end of Time,
+When God shall fight with them a great pitched battle
+And hack them into pieces.
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+            He will smile,
+Father, perhaps, and open his great door,
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+Did but the lawless angels see that door
+They would fall, slain by everlasting peace;
+And when such angels knock upon our doors
+Who goes with them must drive through the same storm.
+
+    [_A knock at the door._ MAIRE BRUIN _opens it and then goes to the
+    dresser and fills a porringer with milk and hands it through the door
+    and takes it back empty and closes the door._
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+A little queer old woman cloaked in green
+Who came to beg a porringer of milk.
+
+BRIDGET BRUIN.
+
+The good people go asking milk and fire
+Upon May Eve--Woe on the house that gives
+For they have power upon it for a year.
+I knew you would bring evil on the house
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+Who was she?
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+Both the tongue and face were strange.
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+Some strangers came last week to Clover Hill;
+She must be one of them.
+
+BRIDGET BRUIN.
+
+I am afraid.
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+The priest will keep all harm out of the house.
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+
+The Cross will keep all harm out of the house
+While it hangs there.
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+            Come, sit beside me, colleen,
+And cut away your dreams of discontent,
+For I would have you light up my last days
+Like a bright torch of pine, and when I die
+I will make you the wealthiest hereabout;
+For hid away where nobody can find
+I have a stocking full of silver and gold.
+
+BRIDGET BRUIN.
+
+You are the fool of every pretty face,
+And I must pinch and pare that my son's wife
+May have all kinds of ribbons for her head.
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+Do not be cross; she is a right good girl!
+The butter's by your elbow, Father Hart.
+My colleen, have not Fate and Time and Change
+Done well for me and for old Bridget there?
+We have a hundred acres of good land,
+And sit beside each other at the fire,
+The wise priest of our parish to our right,
+And you and our dear son to left of us.
+To sit beside the board and drink good wine
+And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire
+And feel content and wisdom in your heart,
+This is the best of life; when we are young
+We long to tread a way none trod before,
+But find the excellent old way through love
+And through the care of children to the hour
+For bidding Fate and Time and Change good-bye.
+
+    [A _knock at the door._ MAIRE BRUIN _opens it and then takes a sod of
+    turf out of the hearth in the tongs and passes it through the door and
+    closes the door and remains standing by it._
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+A little queer old man in a green coat,
+Who asked a burning sod to light his pipe.
+
+BRIDGET BRUIN.
+
+You have now given milk and fire and brought
+For all you know, evil upon the house.
+Before you married you were idle and fine,
+And went about with ribbons on your head;
+And now you are a good-for-nothing wife.
+
+SHAWN BRUIN.
+
+Be quiet, mother!
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+You are much too cross!
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+What do I care if I have given this house,
+Where I must hear all day a bitter tongue,
+Into the power of faeries!
+
+BRIDGET BRUIN.
+
+            You know, well
+How calling the good people by that name
+Or talking of them over much at all
+May bring all kinds of evil on the house.
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+Come, faeries, take me out of this dull house!
+Let me have all the freedom I have lost--
+Work when I will and idle when I will!
+Faeries, came take me out of this dull world,
+For I would ride with you upon the wind,
+Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
+And dance upon the mountains like a flame!
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+You cannot know the meaning of your words!
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+Father, I am right weary of four tongues:
+A tongue that is too crafty and too wise,
+A tongue that is too godly and too grave,
+A tongue that is more bitter than the tide,
+And a kind tongue too full of drowsy love,
+Of drowsy love and my captivity.
+
+    [SHAWN BRUIN _comes over to her and leads her to the settle._
+
+SHAWN BRUIN.
+
+Do not blame me: I often lie awake
+Thinking that all things trouble your bright head--
+How beautiful it is--such broad pale brows
+Under a cloudy blossoming of hair!
+Sit down beside me here--these are too old,
+And have forgotten they were ever young.
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+O, you are the great door-post of this house,
+And I the red nasturtium climbing up.
+
+    [_She takes_ SHAWN'S _hand but looks shyly at the priest and lets it
+    go._
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+Good daughter, take his hand--by love alone
+God binds us to Himself and to the hearth
+And shuts us from the waste beyond His peace,
+From maddening freedom and bewildering light.
+
+SHAWN BRUIN.
+
+Would that the world were mine to give it you
+With every quiet hearth and barren waste,
+The maddening freedom of its woods and tides,
+And the bewildering lights upon its hills.
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+Then I would take and break it in my hands
+To see you smile watching it crumble away.
+
+SHAWN BRUIN.
+
+Then I would mould a world of fire and dew
+With no one bitter, grave, or over wise,
+And nothing marred or old to do you wrong.
+And crowd the enraptured quiet of the sky
+With candles burning to your lonely face.
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+Your looks are all the candles that I need.
+
+SHAWN BRUIN.
+
+Once a fly dancing in a beam o' the sun,
+Or the light wind blowing out of the dawn,
+Could fill your heart with dreams none other knew,
+But now the indissoluble sacrament
+Has mixed your heart that was most proud and cold
+With my warm heart for ever; and sun and moor,
+Must fade and heaven be rolled up like a scroll;
+But your white spirit still walk by my spirit.
+For not a power in earth and heaven and hell
+Can break this bond binding heart unto heart.
+
+    [A VOICE _sings in the distance._
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+Did you hear something call? O, guard me close,
+Because I have said wicked things to-night.
+
+A VOICE (_close to the door_).
+
+The wind blows out of the gates of the day,
+  The wind blows over the lonely of heart
+And the lonely of heart is withered away,
+  While the faeries dance in a place apart,
+Shaking their milk-white feet in a ring,
+  Tossing their milk-white arms in the air;
+For they hear the wind laugh, and murmur, and sing
+  Of a land where even the old are fair,
+And even the wise are merry of tongue;
+  But I heard a reed of Coolaney say,
+'When the wind has laughed and murmured and sung,
+  The lonely of heart must wither away!'
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+I am right happy, and would make all else
+Be happy too. I hear a child outside,
+And will go bring her in out of the cold.
+
+    [_He opens the door. A_ CHILD _dressed in a green jacket with a red
+    cap comes into the house._
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+I tire of winds and waters and pale lights!
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+You are most welcome. It is cold out there,
+Who'd think to face such cold on a May Eve.
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+And when I tire of this warm little house,
+There is one here who must away, away,
+To where the woods, the stars, and the white streams
+Are holding a continual festival.
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+O listen to her dreamy and strange talk,
+Come to the fire.
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+            I'll sit upon your knee,
+For I have run from where the winds are born,
+And long-to rest my feet a little while.
+
+    [_She sits upon his knee._
+
+BRIDGET BRUIN.
+
+How pretty you are!
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+Your hair is wet with dew!
+
+BRIDGET BRUIN.
+
+I'll chafe your poor chilled feet.
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+             You must have come
+A long long way, for I have never seen
+Your pretty face, and must be tired and hungry;
+Here is some bread and wine.
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+            They are both nasty.
+Old mother, have you nothing nice for me?
+
+BRIDGET BRUIN.
+
+I have some honey!
+
+    [_She goes into the next room._
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+You are a dear child;
+The mother was quite cross before you came.
+
+    [BRIDGET _returns with the honey, and goes to the dresser and fills a
+    porringer with milk._
+
+BRIDGET BRUIN.
+
+She is the child of gentle people; look
+At her white hands and at her pretty dress.
+I've brought you some new milk, but wait awhile
+And I will put it by the fire to warm,
+For things well fitted for poor folk like us
+Would never please a high-born child like you.
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+Old mother, my old mother, the green dawn
+Brightens above while you blow up the fire;
+And evening finds you spreading the white cloth.
+The young may lie in bed and dream and hope,
+But you work on because your heart is old.
+
+BRIDGET BRUIN.
+
+The young are idle.
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+            Old father, you are wise,
+And all the years have gathered in your heart
+To whisper of the wonders that are gone.
+The young must sigh through many a dream and hope,
+But you are wise because your heart is old.
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+O, who would think to find so young a child
+Loving old age and wisdom.
+
+    [BRIDGET _gives her more bread and honey._
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+No more, mother.
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+What a small bite; The milk is ready now;
+What a small sip!
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+            Put on my shoes, old mother,
+For I would like to dance now I have dined.
+The reeds are dancing by Coolaney lake,
+And I would like to dance until the reeds
+And the loud wind, the white wave on the shore,
+And all the stars have danced themselves to sleep.
+
+    [BRIDGET _having put on her shoes, she gets off the old man's knees
+    and is about to dance, but suddenly sees the crucifix and shrieks and
+    covers her eyes._
+
+What is that ugly thing on the black cross?
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+You cannot know how naughty your words are!
+That is Our Blessed Lord!
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+Hide it away!
+
+BRIDGET BRUIN.
+
+I have begun to be afraid again!
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+Hide it away!
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+That would be wickedness!
+
+BRIDGET BRUIN.
+
+That would be sacrilege!
+
+THE CHILD
+
+            The tortured thing!
+Hide it away.
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+Her parents are to blame.
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+That is the image of the Son of God.
+
+[_The_ CHILD _puts her arm round his neck lovingly and kisses him.
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+Hide it away! Hide it away!
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+No! no!
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+Because you are so young and little a child
+I will go take it down.
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+            Hide it away,
+And cover it out of sight and out of mind.
+
+    FATHER HART (_takes it down and carries it towards the inner room)._
+
+Since you have come into this barony
+I will instruct you in our blessed faith:
+Being a clever child you will soon learn.
+
+    (_To the others.)
+
+We must be tender with all budding things,
+Our Maker let no thought of Calvary
+Trouble the morning stars in their first song.
+
+    [_Puts the crucifix in the inner room._
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+O, what a nice, smooth floor to dance upon!
+The wind is blowing on the waving reeds,
+The wind is blowing on the heart of man.
+
+    [_She dances, swaying about like the reeds._
+
+MAIRE (_to_ SHAWN BRUIN).
+
+Just now when she came near I thought I heard
+Other small steps beating upon the floor,
+And a faint music blowing in the wind--
+Invisible pipes giving her feet the time.
+
+SHAWN BRUIN.
+
+I heard no step but hers.
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+            Look to the bolt!
+Because the unholy powers are abroad.
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN (_to the_ CHILD).
+
+Come over here, and if you promise me
+Not to talk wickedly of holy things
+I'll give you something.
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+Bring it me, old father!
+
+    [MAURTEEN BRUIN _goes into the next room._
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+I will have queen cakes when you come to me!
+
+    [MAURTEEN BRUIN _returns and lays a piece of money on the table. The_
+    CHILD _makes a gesture of refusal._
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+It will buy lots of toys; see how it glitters!
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+Come, tell me, do you love me?
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+I love you!
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+Ah! but you love this fireside!
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+I love you.
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+But you love Him above.
+
+BRIDGET BRUIN.
+
+She is blaspheming.
+
+THE CHILD (_to_ MAIRE).
+
+And do you likewise love me?
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+I don't know.
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+You love that great tall fellow over there:
+Yet I could make you ride upon the winds,
+Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
+And dance upon the mountains like a flame!
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+Queen of the Angels and kind Saints defend us!
+Some dreadful fate has fallen: before she came
+The wind cried out and took the primroses.
+And I gave milk and fire, and when she came
+She made you hide the blessed crucifix;
+She wears, too, the green jacket and red cap
+Of the unholy creatures of the Raths.
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+You fear because of her wild, pretty prates;
+She knows no better.
+      (_To the_ CHILD) Child, how old are you?
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+My own dear people live a long, long time,
+So I am young; but measure by your years
+And I am older than the eagle cock
+Who blinks and blinks on Ballydawley Hill,
+And he's the oldest thing under the moon.
+At times I merely care to dance and dance--
+At times grow wiser than the eagle cock.
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+What are you?
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+            I am of the faery people.
+I sent my messengers for milk and fire,
+And then I heard one call to me and came.
+
+    [_They all except_ MAIRE BRUIN _gather about the priest for
+    protection._ MAIRE BRUIN _stays on the settle as if in a trance of
+    terror. The_ CHILD _takes primroses from the great bowl and begins to
+    strew them between herself and the priest and about_ MAIRE BRUIN.
+    _During the following dialogue_ SHAWN BRUIN _goes more than once to
+    the brink of the primroses, but shrinks back to the others timidly._
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+I will confront this mighty spirit alone.
+
+    [_They cling to him and hold him back._
+
+THE CHILD (_while she strews the primroses.)
+
+No one whose heart is heavy with human tears
+Can cross these little cressets of the wood.
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+Be not afraid, the Father is with us,
+And all the nine angelic hierarchies,
+The Holy Martyrs and the Innocents,
+The adoring Magi in their coats of mail,
+And He who died and rose on the third day,
+And Mary with her seven times wounded heart.
+
+[_The_ CHILD _ceases strewing the primroses, and kneels upon the settle
+beside_ MAIRE _and puts her arms about her neck._
+
+Cry daughter to the Angels and the Saints.
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+You shall go with me, newly-married bride,
+And gaze upon a merrier multitude:
+White-armed Nuala and Ardroe the Wise,
+Feacra of the hurtling foam, and him
+Who is the ruler of the western host,
+Finvarra, and their Land of Heart's Desire,
+Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,
+But joy is wisdom, Time an endless song.
+I kiss you and the world begins to fade.
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+Daughter, I call you unto home and love!
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+Stay, and come with me, newly-married bride,
+For, if you hear him, you grow like the rest:
+Bear children, cook, be mindful of the churn,
+And wrangle over butter, fowl, and eggs,
+And sit at last there, old and bitter of tongue,
+Watching the white stars war upon your hopes.
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+Daughter, I point you out the way to heaven!
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+But I can lead you, newly-married bride,
+Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise,
+Where nobody gets old and godly and grave,
+Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue,
+And where kind tongues bring no captivity,
+For we are only true to the far lights
+We follow singing, over valley and hill.
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+By the dear name of the one crucified,
+I bid you, Maire Bruin, come to me.
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+I keep you in the name of your own heart!
+
+    [_She leaves the settle, and stooping takes up a mass of primroses and
+    kisses them._
+
+
+
+
+
+
+We have great power to-night, dear golden folk
+For he took down and hid the crucifix.
+And my invisible brethren fill the house;
+I hear their footsteps going up and down.
+O, they shall soon rule all the hearts of men
+And own all lands; last night they merrily danced
+About his chapel belfrey! (_To_ MAIRE.) Come away,
+I hear my brethren bidding us away!
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+I will go fetch the crucifix again.
+
+    [_They hang about him in terror and prevent him from moving._
+
+BRIDGET BRUIN.
+
+The enchanted flowers will kill us if you go.
+
+MAURTEEN BRUIN.
+
+They turn the flowers to little twisted flames.
+
+SHAWN BRUIN.
+
+The little twisted flames burn up the heart.
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+I hear them call us, newly-married bride.
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+I will go with you.
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+She is lost, alas,
+
+THE CHILD (_standing by the door_).
+
+Then, follow but the heavy body of clay,
+And clinging mortal hope must fall from you;
+For we who ride the winds, run on the waves,
+And dance upon the mountains, are more light
+Than dewdrops on the banners of the dawn.
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+Then take my soul.
+
+    [SHAWN BRUIN _goes over to her._
+
+SHAWN BRUIN.
+
+            Beloved, do not leave me!
+What will my life be if you go with her?
+Remember when I met you by the well
+And took your hand in mine and spoke of love.
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+Dear face! Dear voice!
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+Come, newly-married bride!
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+I always loved her world--and yet--and yet
+I think that I would stay if I could stay.
+
+[_Sinks into his arms.
+
+THE CHILD (_from the door_).
+
+White bird, white bird, come with me, little bird!
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+She calls my soul!
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+Come with me, little bird!
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+I can hear songs and dancing!
+
+SHAWN BRUIN.
+
+Stay with me!
+
+MAIRE BRUIN.
+
+Dear, I would stay--and yet and yet--
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+            White bird!
+Come, little bird with crest of gold!
+
+MAIRE BRUIN (_very softly_).
+
+And yet--
+
+THE CHILD.
+
+Come, little bird with silver feet!
+
+SHAWN BRUIN.
+
+Dead, dead!
+
+FATHER HART.
+
+Thus do the evil spirits snatch their prey
+Almost out of the very hand of God;
+And day by day their power is more and more,
+And men and women leave old paths, for pride
+Comes knocking with thin knuckles on the heart.
+
+A VOICE _sings outside_--
+
+The wind blows out of the gates of the day,
+  The wind blows over the lonely of heart,
+And the lonely of heart is withered away,
+  While the faeries dance in a place apart,
+Shaking their milk-white feet in a ring,
+  Tossing their milk-white arms in the air;
+For they hear the wind laugh and murmur and sing
+  Of a land where even the old are fair,
+And even the wise are merry of tongue;
+  But I heard a reed of Coolaney say,
+'When the wind has laughed and murmured and sung,
+  The lonely of heart must wither away.'
+
+    [_The song is taken up by many voices, who sing loudly, as if in
+    triumph. Some of the voices seem to come from within the house._
+
+
+
+
+
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