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For a complete list, please see the bottom of this + document. + + + + +MOSADA. + +A Dramatic Poem. + +BY + +W. B. YEATS. + +WITH A + +Frontispiece Portrait of the Author + +By J. B. YEATS. + + +_Reprinted from the DUBLIN UNIVERSITY REVIEW._ + + +DUBLIN: + +PRINTED BY SEALY, BRYERS, AND WALKER, +94, 95 AND 96 MIDDLE ABBEY STREET. + +1886. + +[Illustration] + + + + +MOSADA. + + +"_And my Lord Cardinal hath had strange days in his youth._" + + _Extract from a Memoir of the Fifteenth Century._ + + + MOSADA, A Moorish Lady. + EBREMAR, A Monk. + COLA, A Lame Boy. + MONKS AND INQUISITORS. + + +SCENE I. + +_A Little Moorish Room in the Village of Azubia. +In the centre of the room a chafing dish._ + + _Mosada._ [_alone_] Three times the roses have grown less and less, +As slowly Autumn climbed the golden throne +Where sat old Summer fading into song, +And thrice the peaches flushed upon the walls, +And thrice the corn around the sickles flamed, +Since 'mong my people, tented on the hills, +He stood a messenger. In April's prime +(Swallows were flashing their white breasts above +Or perching on the tents, a-weary still +From waste seas cross'd, yet ever garrulous) +Along the velvet vale I saw him come: +In Autumn, when far down the mountain slopes +The heavy clusters of the grapes were full, +I saw him sigh and turn and pass away; +For I and all my people were accurst +Of his sad God; and down among the grass +Hiding my face, I cried long, bitterly. +Twas evening, and the cricket nation sang +Around my head and danced among the grass; +And all was dimness till a dying leaf +Slid circling down and softly touched my lips +With dew as though 'twere sealing them for death. +Yet somewhere in the footsore world we meet +We two before we die, for Azolar +The star-taught Moor said thus it was decreed +By those wan stars that sit in company +Above the Alpujarras on their thrones, +That when the stars of our nativity +Draw star to star, as on that eve he passed +Down the long valleys from my people's tents, +We meet--we two. + +[_She opens the casement--the mingled sound of the voices and +laughter of the apple gatherers floats in._] + + How merry all these are +Among the fruit. But yon, lame Cola crouches +Away from all the others. Now the sun-- +A-shining on the little crucifix +Of silver hanging round lame Cola's neck-- +Sinks down at last with yonder minaret +Of the Alhambra black athwart his disk; +And Cola seeing, knows the sign and comes. +Thus do I burn these precious herbs whose smoke +Pours up and floats in fragrance o'er my head +In coil on coil of azure. + +[_Enter Cola._] All is ready. + + _Cola._ Mosada, it is then so much the worse. +I will not share your sin. + + _Mosada._ It is no sin +That you shall see on yonder glowing cloud +Pictured, where wander the beloved feet +Whose footfall I have longed for, three sad summers-- +Why these new fears? + + _Cola._ The servant of the Lord, +The dark still man, has come, and says 'tis sin. + + _Mosada._ They say the wish itself is half the sin. +Then has this one been sinned full many times, +Yet 'tis no sin--my father taught it me. +He was a man most learned and most mild, +Who, dreaming to a wondrous age, lived on +Tending the roses round his lattice door. +For years his days had dawned and faded thus +Among the plants; the flowery silence fell +Deep in his soul, like rain upon a soil +Worn by the solstice fierce, and made it pure. +Would he teach any sin? + + _Cola._ Gaze in the cloud +Yourself. + + _Mosada._ None but the innocent can see. + + _Cola._ They say I am all ugliness; lame-footed +I am; one shoulder turned awry--why then +Should I be good? But you are beautiful. + + _Mosada._ I cannot see. + + _Cola._ The beetles, and the bats, +And spiders, are my friends, I'm theirs, and they are +Not good; but you are like the butterflies. + + _Mosada._ I cannot see! I cannot see! but you +Shall see a thing to talk on when you're old, +Under a lemon tree beside your door; +And all the elders sitting in the sun, +Will wondering listen, and this tale shall ease +For long, the burthen of their talking griefs. + + _Cola._ Upon my knees I pray you, let it sleep, +The vision. + + _Mosada._ You're pale and weeping, child. +Be not afraid, you'll see no fearful thing. +Thus, thus I beckon from her viewless fields-- +Thus beckon to our aid a Phantom fair +And calm, robed all in raiment moony white. +She was a great enchantress once of yore, +Whose dwelling was a tree-wrapt island, lulled +Far out upon the water world and ringed +With wonderful white sand, where never yet +Were furled the wings of ships. There in a dell +A lily blanchèd place, she sat and sang, +And in her singing wove around her head +White lilies, and her song flew forth afar +Along the sea; and many a man grew hushed +In his own house or 'mong the merchants grey, +Hearing the far off singing guile and groaned, +And manned an argosy and sailing died. +In the far isle she sang herself asleep +At last. But now I wave her to my side. + + _Cola._ Stay, stay, or I will hold your white arms down. +Ah me, I cannot reach them--here and there +Darting you wave them, darting in the vapour. +Heard you? Your lute upon the wall has sounded! +I feel a finger drawn across my cheek! + + _Mosada._ The phantoms come; ha ha! they come, they come! +I wave them hither, my breast heaves with joy. +Ah! now I'm eastern-hearted once again, +And while they gather round my beckoning arms, +I'll sing the songs the dusky lovers sing, +Wandering in sultry palaces of Ind, +A lotus in their hands-- + +[_The door is flung open. Enter the Officers of the Inquisition._] + + _First Inquisitor._ Young Moorish girl +Taken in magic. In the Church's name +I here arrest thee. + + _Mosada._ It is Allah's will. +Touch not this boy, for he is innocent. + + _Cola._ Forgive! for I have told them everything. +They said I'd burn in hell unless I told +Them all, and let them find you in the vapour. + +[_She turns away--he clings to her dress._] + +Forgive me! + + _Mosada._ It was Allah's will. + + _Second Inquisitor._ Now cords. + + _Mosada._ No need to bind my hands. Where are ye, sirs, +For ye are hid with vapours? + + _Second Inquisitor._ Round the stake +The vapour is much thicker. + + _Cola._ God! the stake! +Ye said that ye would fright her from her sin-- +No more; take me instead of her, great sirs. +She was my only friend; I'm lame you know-- +One shoulder twisted, and the children cry +Names after me. + + _First Inquisitor._ Lady-- + + _Mosada._ I come. + + _Cola_ [_following._] Forgive. +Forgive, or I will die. + + _Mosada_ [_stooping and kissing him_]. 'Twas Allah's will. + + +SCENE II. + +_A Room, the building of the Inquisition of Granada, lit by stained +window, picturing St. James of Spain._ + +_Monks and Inquisitors._ + + _First Monk._ Will you not hear my last new song? + + _First Inquisitor._ Hush, hush! +So she must burn you say. + + _Second Inquisitor._ She must in truth. + + _First Inquisitor._ Will he not spare her life? How would one matter +When there are many? + + _Second Monk._ Ebremar will stamp +This heathen horde away. You need not hope; +And know you not she kissed that pious child +With poisonous lips, and he is pining since? + + _First Monk._ You're full of wordiness. Come, hear my song. + + _Second Monk._ In truth an evil race; why strive for her, +A little Moorish girl? + + _Second Inquisitor._ Small worth. + + _First Monk._ My song-- + + _First Inquisitor._ I had a sister like her once my friend. + +[_Touching the first Monk on the shoulder._] + +Where is our brother Peter? When you're nigh, +He is not far. I'd have him speak for her. +I saw his jovial mood bring once a smile +To sainted Ebremar's sad eyes. I think +He loves our brother Peter in his heart. +If Peter would but ask her life--who knows? + + _First Monk._ He digs his cabbages. He brings to mind +That song I've made--is of a Russian tale +Of Holy Peter of the Burning Gate: +A saint of Russia in a vision saw + +[_Sings_] + + A stranger new arisen wait + By the door of Peter's gate, + And he shouted Open wide + Thy sacred door, but Peter cried, + No, thy home is deepest hell, + Deeper than the deepest well. + Then the stranger softly crew + Cock-a-doodle-doodle-doo! + Answered Peter: Enter in + Friend; but 'twere a deadly sin + Ever more to speak a word + Of any unblessed earthly bird. + + _First Inquisitor._ Be still, I hear the step of Ebremar. +Yonder he comes; bright-eyed, and hollow-cheeked +From fasting--see, the red light slanting down +From the great painted window wraps his brow, +As with an aureole. + +[_Ebremar enters--they all bow to him._] + + _First Inquisitor._ My suit to you-- + + _Ebremar._ I will not hear; the Moorish girl must die. +I will burn heresy from this mad earth, +And-- + + _First Inquisitor._ Mercy is the manna of the world. + + _Ebremar._ The wages of sin is death. + + _Second Monk._ No use. + + _First Inquisitor._ My lord, if it must be, I pray descend +Yourself into the dungeon 'neath our feet +And importune with weighty words this Moor, +That she foreswear her heresies and save +Her soul from seas of endless flame in hell. + + _Ebremar._ I speak alone with servants of the Cross +And dying men--and yet--but no, farewell. + + _Second Monk._ No use. + + _Ebremar._ Away! [_They go._] Hear oh! thou enduring God, +Who giveth to the golden-crested wren +Her hanging mansion. Give to me, I pray, +The burthen of thy truth. Reach down thy hands +And fill me with thy rage, that I may bruise +The heathen. Yea, and shake the sullen kings +Upon their thrones. The lives of men shall flow +As quiet as the little rivulets +Beneath the sheltering shadow of thy Church, +And thou shalt bend, enduring God, the knees +Of the great warriors whose names have sung +The world to its fierce infancy again. + + +SCENE III. + +_The dungeon of the Inquisition. The morning of the Auto-da-Fe dawns +dimly through a barred window. A few faint stars are shining. Swallows +are circling in the dimness without._ + + _Mosada._ Oh! swallows, swallows, swallows, will ye fly +This eve, to-morrow, or to-morrow night +Above the farm-house by the little lake +That's rustling in the reeds with patient pushes, +Soft as a long dead footstep whispering through +The brain. My brothers will be passing down +Quite soon the cornfield, where the poppies grow, +To their farm-work; how silent all will be. +But no, in this warm weather, 'mong the hills, +Will be the faint far thunder-sound as though +The world were dreaming in its summer sleep; +That will be later, day is scarcely dawning. +And Hassan will be with them--he was so small, +A weak, thin child, when last I saw him there. +He will be taller now--'twas long ago. + +The men are busy in the glimmering square. +I hear the murmur as they raise the beams +To build the circling seats, where high in air +Soon will the churchmen nod above the crowd. +I'm not of that pale company whose feet +Ere long shall falter through the noisy square, +And not come thence--for here in this small ring, +Hearken, ye swallows! I have hoarded up +A poison drop. The toy of fancy once, +A fashion with us Moorish maids, begot +Of dreaming and of watching by the door +The shadows pass; but now, I love my ring, +For it alone of all the world will do +My bidding. + +[_Sucks poison from the ring._] + + Now 'tis done, and I am glad +And free--'twill thieve away with sleepy mood +My thoughts, and yonder brightening patch of sky +With three bars crossed, and these four walls my world, +And yon few stars, grown dim like eyes of lovers +The noisy world divides. How soon a deed +So small makes one grow weak and tottering. +Where shall I lay me down? That question is +A weighty question, for it is the last. +Not there, for there a spider weaves her web. +Nay here, I'll lay me down where I can watch +The burghers of the night fade one by one, + ... Yonder a leaf +Of apple blossom circles in the gloom, +Floating from yon barred window. New comer, +Thou'rt welcome. Lie there close against my fingers. +I wonder which is whitest, they or thou. +'Tis thou, for they've grown blue around the nails. +My blossom, I am dying, and the stars +Are dying too. They were full seven stars; +Two only now they are, two side by side. +Oh! Allah, it was thus they shone that night, +When my lost lover left these arms. My Vallence, +We meet at last, the ministering stars +Of our nativity hang side by side, +And throb within the circles of green dawn. +Too late, too late, for I am near to death. +I try to lift mine arms--they fall again. +This death is heavy in my veins like sleep. +I cannot even crawl along the flags +A little nearer those bright stars. Tell me, +Is it your message, stars, that when death comes +My soul shall touch with his, and the two flames +Be one? I think all's finished now and sealed. + +[_After a pause enter Ebremar._] + + _Ebremar._ Young Moorish girl, thy final hour is here, +Cast off thy heresies and save thy soul +From dateless pain. She sleeps-- + +[_Starting._] + + Mosada--thou-- +Oh God!--awake, thou shalt not die. She sleeps. +Her head cast backward in her unloosed hair. +Look up, look up, thy Vallence is by thee. +A fearful paleness creeps across her breast +And out-spread arms. + +[_Casting himself down by her._] + + Be not so pale, dear love. +Oh! can my kisses bring a flush no more +Upon thy face. How heavily thy head +Hangs on my breast. Listen, we shall be safe. +We'll fly from this before the morning star. +Dear heart, there is a secret way that leads +Its paven length towards the river's marge, +Where lies a shallop in the yellow reeds. +Awake, awake, and we will sail afar, +Afar along the fleet white river's face-- +Alone with our own whispers and replies-- +Alone among the murmurs of the dawn. +Among thy nation none shall know that I +Was Ebremar, whose thoughts were fixed on God, +And heaven, and holiness. + + _Mosada._ Let's talk and grieve, +For that's the sweetest music for sad souls. +Day's dead, all flame-bewildered, and the hills +In list'ning silence gazing on our grief. +I never knew an eve so marvellous still. + + _Ebremar._ Her dreams are talking with old years. Awake, +Grieve not, for Vallence kneels beside thee-- + + _Mosada._ Vallence, +'Tis late, wait one more day; below the hills +The foot-worn way is long, and it grows dark. +It is the darkest eve I ever knew. + + _Ebremar._ I kneel by thee--no parting now--look up. +She smiles--is happy with her wandering griefs. + + _Mosada._ So you must go; kiss me before you go. +Oh! would the busy minutes might fold up +Their thieving wings that we might never part. +I never knew a night so honey sweet. + + _Ebremar._ There is no leave taking. I go no more. +Safe on the breast of Vallence is thy head +Unhappy one. + + _Mosada._ Go not. Go not. Go not. +For night comes fast; look down on me, my love, +And see how thick the dew lies on my face. +I never knew a night so dew-bedrowned. + + _Ebremar._ Oh! hush the wandering music of thy mind. +Look on me once. Why sink your eyelids so? +Why do you hang so heavy in my arms? +Love, will you die when we have met? One look +Give to thy Vallence. + + _Mosada._ Vallence--he has gone +From here, along the shadowy way that winds +Companioning the river's pilgrim torch. +I'll see him longer if I stand out here +Upon the mountain's brow. + +[_She tries to stand and totters. Ebremar supports her, and +she stands pointing down as if into a visionary valley._] + + Yonder he treads +The path o'er-muffled with the leaves--dead leaves, +Like happy thoughts grown sad in evil days. +He fades among the mists; how fast they come, +And pour upon the world! Ah! well a day! +Poor love and sorrow with their arms thrown round +Each other's necks, and whispering as they go, +Still wander through the world. He's gone, he's gone. +I'm weary--weary, and 'tis very cold. +I'll draw my cloak around me; it is cold. +I never knew a night so bitter cold. + +[_Dies._] + + _Ebremar._ Mosada! Oh, Mosada! + +[_Enter Monks and Inquisitors._] + + _First Inquisitor._ My lord, you called. + + _Ebremar._ Not I. This maid is dead. + + _First Monk._ From poison, for you cannot trust these Moors. +You're pale, my lord. + + _First Inquisitor._ [_aside_] His lips are quivering. +The flame that shone within his eyes but now +Has flickered and gone out. + + _Ebremar._ I am not well. +'Twill pass. I'll see the other prisoners now, +And importune their souls to penitence, +So they escape from hell. But pardon me. +Your hood is threadbare--see that it be changed +Before we take our seats above the crowd. + + _First Monk._ I always said you could not trust these Moors. + +[_They go._] + + +W. B. YEATS. + + +Printed by +SEALY, BRYERS AND WALKER, +94, 95, AND 96 MIDDLE ABBEY STREET, +DUBLIN. + + +TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES + + Page 5: "my friend," amended to "my friend." + + Page 6: "First Inqusitor" amended to "First Inquisitor" + + Page 10: "kn ewa" amended to "knew a" + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Mosada, by William Butler Yeats + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MOSADA *** + +***** This file should be named 33430-8.txt or 33430-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/3/4/3/33430/ + +Produced by Brian Foley and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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