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+Title: The Hour Glass
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HOUR GLASS ***
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+
+THE HOUR-GLASS
+A MORALITY
+BY W. B. YEATS
+
+
+
+DRAMATIS PERSONAE
+
+A WISE MAN
+A FOOL
+SOME PUPILS
+AN ANGEL
+THE WISE MAN'S WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN
+
+
+SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side
+opening to an inner room. A desk and a chair in the middle. An
+hour-glass on a bracket near the door. A creepy stool near it. Some
+benches. The WISE MAN sitting at his desk.
+
+WISE MAN [turning over the pages of a book]. Where is that passage
+I am to explain to my pupils to-day? Here it is, and the book says
+that it was written by a beggar on the walls of Babylon: "There are
+two living countries, the one visible and the one invisible; and
+when it is winter with us it is summer in that country; and when
+the November winds are up among us it is lambing-time there." I
+wish that my pupils had asked me to explain any other passage, for
+this is a hard passage. [The FOOL comes in and stands at the door,
+holding out his hat. He has a pair of shears in the other hand.] It
+sounds to me like foolishness; and yet that cannot be, for the
+writer of this book, where I have found so much knowledge,
+would not have set it by itself on this page, and surrounded it
+with so many images and so many deep colors and so much fine
+gilding, if it had been foolishness.
+
+FOOL. Give me a penny.
+
+WISE MAN. [Turns to another page.] Here he has written: "The
+learned in old times forgot the visible country." That I
+understand, but I have taught my learners better.
+
+FOOL. Won't you give me a penny?
+
+WISE MAN. What do you want? The words of the wise Saracen will not
+teach you much.
+
+FOOL. Such a great wise teacher as you are will not refuse a penny
+to a Fool.
+
+WISE MAN. What do you know about wisdom?
+
+FOOL. Oh, I know! I know what I have seen.
+
+WISE MAN. What is it you have seen?
+
+FOOL. When I went by Kilcluan where the bells used to be ringing at
+the break of every day, I could hear nothing but the people snoring
+in their houses. When I went by Tubbervanach where the young men
+used to be climbing the hill to the blessed well, they were sitting
+at the crossroads playing cards. When I went by Carrigoras where
+the friars used to be fasting and serving the poor, I saw them
+drinking wine and obeying their wives. And when I asked what
+misfortune had brought all these changes, they said it was no
+misfortune, but it was the wisdom they had learned from your
+teaching.
+
+WISE MAN. Run round to the kitchen, and my wife will give you
+something to eat.
+
+FOOL. That is foolish advice for a wise man to give.
+
+WISE MAN. Why, Fool?
+
+FOOL. What is eaten is gone. I want pennies for my bag. I must buy
+bacon in the shops, and nuts in the market, and strong drink for
+the time when the sun is weak. And I want snares to catch the
+rabbits and the squirrels and the bares, and a pot to cook them in.
+
+WISE MAN. Go away. I have other things to think of now than giving
+you pennies.
+
+FOOL. Give me a penny and I will bring you luck. Bresal the
+Fisherman lets me sleep among the nets in his loft in the
+winter-time because he says I bring him luck; and in the
+summer-time the wild creatures let me sleep near their nests
+and their holes. It is lucky even to look at me or to touch me,
+but it is much more lucky to give me a penny. [Holds out his
+hand.] If I wasn't lucky, I'd starve.
+
+WISE MAN. What have you got the shears for?
+
+FOOL. I won't tell you. If I told you, you would drive them away.
+
+WISE MAN. Whom would I drive away?
+
+FOOL. I won't tell you.
+
+WISE MAN. Not if I give you a penny?
+
+FOOL. No.
+
+WISE MAN. Not if I give you two pennies.
+
+FOOL. You will be very lucky if you give me two pennies, but I
+won't tell you.
+
+WISE MAN. Three pennies?
+
+FOOL. Four, and I will tell you!
+
+WISE MAN. Very well, four. But I will not call you Teigue the Fool
+any longer.
+
+FOOL. Let me come close to you where nobody will hear me. But first
+you must promise you will not drive them away. [WISE MAN nods.]
+Every day men go out dressed in black and spread great black nets
+over the hill, great black nets.
+
+WISE MAN. Why do they do that?
+
+FOOL. That they may catch the feet of the angels. But every
+morning, just before the dawn, I go out and cut the nets with my
+shears, and the angels fly away.
+
+WISE MAN. Ah, now I know that you are Teigue the Fool. You have
+told me that I am wise, and I have never seen an angel.
+
+FOOL. I have seen plenty of angels.
+
+WISE MAN. Do you bring luck to the angels too.
+
+FOOL. Oh, no, no! No one could do that. But they are always there
+if one looks about one; they are like the blades of grass.
+
+WISE MAN. When do you see them?
+
+FOOL. When one gets quiet; then something wakes up inside one,
+something happy and quiet like the stars--not like the seven that
+move, but like the fixed stars.          [He points upward.]
+
+WISE MAN. And what happens then?
+
+FOOL. Then all in a minute one smells summer flowers, and tall
+people go by, happy and laughing, and their clothes are the color
+of burning sods.
+
+WISE MAN. Is it long since you have seen them, Teigue the Fool?
+
+FOOL. Not long, glory be to God! I saw one coming behind me just
+now. It was not laughing, but it had clothes the color of burning
+sods, and there was something shining about its head.
+
+WISE MAN. Well, there are your four pennies. You, a fool, say
+"Glory be to God," but before I came the wise men said it. Run away
+now. I must ring the bell for my scholars.
+
+FOOL. Four pennies! That means a great deal of luck. Great teacher,
+I have brought you plenty of luck!   [He goes out shaking the bag.]
+
+WISE MAN. Though they call him Teigue the Fool, he is not more
+foolish than everybody used to be, with their dreams and their
+preachings and their three worlds; but I have overthrown their
+three worlds with the seven sciences. [He touches the books with
+his hands.] With Philosophy that was made for the lonely star, I
+have taught them to forget Theology; with Architecture, I have
+hidden the ramparts of their cloudy heaven; with Music, the fierce
+planets' daughter whose hair is always on fire, and with Grammar
+that is the moon's daughter, I have shut their ears to the
+imaginary harpings and speech of the angels; and I have made
+formations of battle with Arithmetic that have put the hosts of
+heaven to the rout. But, Rhetoric and Dialectic, that have been
+born out of the light star and out of the amorous star, you have
+been my spearman and my catapult! Oh! my swift horseman! Oh! my
+keen darting arguments, it is because of you that I have overthrown
+the hosts of foolishness! [An ANGEL, in a dress the color of
+embers, and carrying a blossoming apple bough in his hand and with
+a gilded halo about his head, stands upon the threshold.] Before I
+came, men's minds were stuffed with folly about a heaven where
+birds sang the hours, and about angels that came and stood upon
+men's thresholds. But I have locked the visions into heaven and
+turned the key upon them. Well, I must consider this passage about
+the two countries. My mother used to say something of the kind. She
+would say that when our bodies sleep our souls awake, and that
+whatever withers here ripens yonder, and that harvests are snatched
+from us that they may feed invisible people. But the meaning of the
+book must be different, for only fools and women have thoughts like
+that; their thoughts were never written upon the walls of Babylon.
+[He sees the ANGEL.] What are you? Who are you? I think I saw some
+that were like you in my dreams when I was a child--that bright
+thing, that dress that is the color of embers! But I have done with
+dreams, I have done with dreams.
+
+ANGEL. I am the Angel of the Most High God.
+
+WISE MAN. Why have you come to me?
+
+ANGEL. I have brought you a message.
+
+WISE MAN. What message have yon got for me?
+
+ANGEL. You will die within the hour. You will die when the last
+grains have fallen in this glass.     [He turns the hour-glass.]
+
+WISE MAN. My time to die has not come. I have my pupils. I have a
+young wife and children that I cannot leave. Why must I die?
+
+ANGEL. You must die because no souls have passed over the threshold
+of heaven since you came into this country. The threshold is
+grassy, and the gates are rusty, and the angels that keep watch
+there are lonely.
+
+WISE MAN. Where will death bring me to?
+
+ANGEL. The doors of heaven will not open to you, for you have
+denied the existence of heaven; and the doors of purgatory will not
+open to you, for you have denied the existence of purgatory.
+
+WISE MAN. But I have also denied the existence of hell!
+
+ANGEL. Hell is the place of those who deny.
+
+WISE MAN [kneeling]. I have indeed denied everything and have
+taught others to deny. I have believed in nothing but what my
+senses told me. But, oh! beautiful Angel, forgive me, forgive me!
+
+ANGEL. You should have asked forgiveness long ago.
+
+WISE MAN. Had I seen your face as I see it now, oh! beautiful
+Angel, I would have believed, I would have asked forgiveness.
+Maybe you do not know how easy it is to doubt. Storm, death, the
+grass rotting, many sicknesses, those are the messengers that came
+to me. Oh! why are you silent? You carry the pardon of the Most
+High; give it to me! I would kiss your hands if I were not afraid--
+no, no, the hem of your dress!
+
+ANGEL. You let go undying hands too long ago to take hold of them now.
+
+WISE MAN. You cannot understand. You live in that country people
+only see in their dreams. You live in a country that we can only
+dream about. Maybe it is as hard for you to understand why we
+disbelieve as it is for us to believe. Oh! what have I said! You
+know everything! Give me time to undo what I have done. Give me a
+year--a month--a day--an hour! Give me this hour's end, that I may
+undo what I have done!
+
+ANGEL. You cannot undo what you have done. Yet I have this power
+with my message. If you can find one that believes before the
+hour's end, you shall come to heaven after the years of purgatory.
+For, from one fiery seed, watched over by those that sent me, the
+harvest can come again to heap the golden threshing-floor. But now
+farewell, for I am weary of the weight of time.
+
+WISE MAN. Blessed be the Father, blessed be the Son, blessed be the
+Spirit, blessed be the Messenger They have sent!
+
+ANGEL [at the door and pointing at the hour-glass]. In a little
+while the uppermost glass will be empty.        [Goes out.]
+
+WISE MAN. Everything will be well with me. I will call my pupils;
+they only say they doubt. [Pulls the bell.] They will be here in a
+moment. I hear their feet outside on the path. They want to please
+me; they pretend that they disbelieve. Belief is too old to be
+overcome all in a minute. Besides, I can prove what I once
+disproved. [Another pull at the bell.] They are coming now. I will
+go to my desk. I will speak quietly, as if nothing had happened.
+
+[He stands at the desk with a fixed look in his eyes.]
+
+[Enter PUPILS and the FOOL.]
+
+FOOL. Leave me alone. Leave me alone. Who is that pulling at my
+bag? King's son, do not pull at my bag.
+
+A YOUNG MAN. Did your friends the angels give you that bag? Why
+don't they fill your bag for you?
+
+FOOL. Give me pennies! Give me some pennies!
+
+A YOUNG MAN. Let go his cloak, it is coming to pieces. What do you
+want pennies for, with that great bag at your waist?
+
+FOOL. I want to buy bacon in the shops, and nuts in the market, and
+strong drink for the time when the sun is weak, and snares to catch
+rabbits and the squirrels that steal the nuts, and hares, and a
+great pot to cook them in.
+
+A YOUNG MAN. Why don't your friends tell you where buried treasures
+are?
+
+ANOTHER. Why don't they make you dream about treasures? If one
+dreams three times, there is always treasure.
+
+FOOL [holding out his hat]. Give me pennies! Give me pennies!
+
+[They throw pennies into his hat. He is standing close to the
+door, that he may hold out his hat to each newcomer.]
+
+A YOUNG MAN. Master, will you have Teigue the Fool for a scholar?
+
+ANOTHER YOUNG MAN. Teigue, will you give us pennies if we teach you
+lessons? No, be goes to school for nothing on the mountains. Tell
+us what you learn on the mountains, Teigue?
+
+WISE MAN. Be silent all. [He has been standing silent, looking
+away.] Stand still in your places, for there is something I would
+have you tell me.
+
+[A moment's pause. They all stand round in their places.
+TEIGUE still stands at the door.]
+
+WISE MAN. Is there any one amongst you who believes in God? In
+heaven? Or in purgatory? Or in hell?
+
+ALL THE YOUNG MEN. No one; Master! No one!
+
+WISE MAN. I knew you would all say that; but do not be afraid. I
+will not be angry. Tell me the truth. Do you not believe?
+
+A YOUNG MAN. We once did, but you have taught us to know better.
+
+WISE MAN. Oh! teaching, teaching does not go very deep! The heart
+remains unchanged under it all. You believe just as yon always did,
+and you are afraid to tell me.
+
+A YOUNG MAN. No, no, master.
+
+WISE MAN. If you tell me that you believe I shall be glad and not
+angry.
+
+A YOUNG MAN. [To his neighbor.] He wants somebody to dispute with.
+
+HIS NEIGHBOR. I knew that from the beginning.
+
+A YOUNG MAN. That is not the subject for to-day; you were going to
+talk about the words the beggar wrote upon the walls of Babylon.
+
+WISE MAN. If there is one amongst you that believes, he will be my
+best friend. Surely there is one amongst you. [They are all
+silent.] Surely what you learned at your mother's knees has not
+been so soon forgotten.
+
+A YOUNG MAN. Master, till you came, no teacher in this land was
+able to get rid of foolishness and ignorance. But every one has
+listened to you, every one has learned the truth. You have had your
+last disputation.
+
+ANOTHER. What a fool you made of that monk in the market-place! He
+had not a word to say.
+
+WISE MAN. [Comes from his desk and stands among them in the middle
+of the room.] Pupils, dear friends, I have deceived you all this
+time. It was I myself who was ignorant. There is a God. There is a
+heaven. There is fire that passes, and there is fire that lasts for
+ever.
+
+[TEIGUE, through all this, is sitting on a stool by the door,
+reckoning on his fingers what he will buy with his money.]
+
+A YOUNG MAN [to another]. He will not be satisfied till we dispute
+with him. [To the WISE MAN.] Prove it, master. Have you seen them?
+
+WISE MAN [in a low, solemn voice]. Just now, before you came in,
+some one came to the door, and when I looked up I saw an angel
+standing there.
+
+A YOUNG MAN. You were in a dream. Anybody can see an angel in his
+dreams.
+
+WISE MAN. Oh, my God! it was not a dream. I was awake, waking as I
+am now. I tell you I was awake as I am now.
+
+A YOUNG MAN. Some dream when they are awake, but they are the
+crazy, and who would believe what they say? Forgive me, master, but
+that is what you taught me to say. That is what you said to the
+monk when he spoke of the visions of the saints and the martyrs.
+
+ANOTHER YOUNG MAN. You see how well we remember your teaching.
+
+WISE MAN. Out, out from my sight! I want some one with belief. I
+must find that grain the Angel spoke of before I die. I tell you I
+must find it, and you answer me with arguments. Out with you, or I
+will beat you with my stick! [The young men laugh.]
+
+A YOUNG MAN. How well he plays at faith! He is like the monk when
+he had nothing more to say.
+
+WISE MAN. Out, out, or I will lay this stick about your shoulders!
+Out with you, though you are a king's son!
+
+[They begin to hurry out.]
+
+A YOUNG MAN. Come, come; he wants us to find some one who will
+dispute with him.                               [All go out.]
+
+WISE MAN [alone. He goes to the door at the side]. I will call
+my wife. She will believe; women always believe. [He opens the door
+and calls.] Bridget! Bridget! [BRIDGET comes in wearing her apron,
+her sleeves turned up from her floury arms.] Bridget, tell me the
+truth; do not say what you think will please me. Do you sometimes
+say your prayers?
+
+BRIDGET. Prayers! No, you taught me to leave them off long ago. At
+first I was sorry, but I am glad now, for I am sleepy in the
+evenings.
+
+WISE MAN. But do you not believe in God?
+
+BRIDGET. Oh, a good wife only believes what her husband tells her!
+
+WISE MAN. But sometimes when you are alone, when I am in the school
+and the children asleep, do you not think about the saints, about
+the things you used to believe in? What do you think of when you
+are alone?
+
+BRIDGET [considering]. I think about nothing. Sometimes I wonder if
+the pig is fattening well, or I go out to see if the crows are
+picking up the chickens' food.
+
+WISE MAN. Oh, what can I do! Is there nobody who believes? I must
+go and find somebody! [He goes toward the door but with his eyes
+fixed on the hour-glass.] I cannot go out; I cannot leave that!
+
+BRIDGET. You want somebody to get up argument with.
+
+WISE MAN. Oh, look out of the door and tell me if there is anybody
+there in the street. I cannot leave this glass; somebody might
+shake it! Then the sand would fall quickly.
+
+BRIDGET. I don't understand what you are saying. [Looks out.] There
+is a crowd of people talking to your pupils.
+
+WISE MAN. Oh, run out, Bridget, and see if they have found somebody
+that believes!
+
+BRIDGET [wiping her arms in her apron and pulling down her
+sleeves]. It's a hard thing to be married to a man of learning
+that must be always having arguments. [Goes out and shouts through
+the kitchen door.] Don't be meddling with the bread, children,
+while I'm out.
+
+WISE MAN. [Kneels down.] "Salvum me fac, Deus--salvum--salvum. ..."
+I have forgotten it all. It is thirty years since I said a prayer.
+I must pray in the common tongue, like a clown begging in the
+market like Teigue the Fool! [He prays.] Help me, Father, Son, and
+Spirit!
+
+[BRIDGET enters, followed by the FOOL, who is holding out his hat
+to her.]
+
+FOOL. Give me something; give me a penny to buy bacon in the shops,
+and nuts in the market, and strong drink for the time when the sun
+grows weak.
+
+BRIDGET. I have no pennies. [To the WISE MAN.] Your pupils cannot
+find anybody to argue with you. There is nobody in the whole
+country who had enough belief to fill a pipe with since you put
+down the monk. Can't you be quiet now and not always be wanting to
+have arguments? It must be terrible to have a mind like that.
+
+WISE MAN. I am lost! I am lost!
+
+BRIDGET. Leave me alone now; I have to make the bread for you and
+the children.
+
+WISE MAN. Out of this, woman, out of this, I say! [BRIDGET goes
+through the kitchen door.] Will nobody find a way to help me! But
+she spoke of my children. I had forgotten them. They will believe.
+It is only those who have reason that doubt; the young are full of
+faith. Bridget, Bridget, send my children to me!
+
+BRIDGET [inside]. Your father wants you, run to him now.
+
+[The two children came in. They stand together a little way from
+the threshold of the kitchen door, looking timidly at their
+father.]
+
+WISE MAN. Children, what do you believe? Is there a heaven? Is
+there a hell? Is there a purgatory?
+
+FIRST CHILD. We haven't forgotten, father.
+
+THE OTHER CHILD. Oh, no, father. [They both speak together as if in
+school.] There is no heaven; there is no hell; there is nothing
+we cannot see.
+
+FIRST CHILD. Foolish people used to think that there were, but you
+are very learned and you have taught us better.
+
+WISE MAN. You are just as bad as the others, just as bad as the
+others! Out of the room with you, out of the room! [The children
+begin to cry and run away.] Go away, go away! I will teach you
+better--no, I will never teach you again. Go to your mother--no,
+she will not be able to teach them. ... Help them, O God! [Alone.]
+The grains are going very quickly. There is very little sand in the
+uppermost glass. Somebody will come for me in a moment; perhaps he
+is at the door now! All creatures that have reason doubt. O that
+the grass and the planets could speak! Somebody has said that they
+would wither if they doubted. O speak to me, O grass blades! O
+fingers of God's certainty, speak to me. You are millions and you
+will not speak. I dare not know the moment the messenger will come
+for me. I will cover the glass. [He covers it and brings it to the
+desk, and the FOOL, is sitting by the door fiddling with some
+flowers which he has stuck in his hat. He has begun to blow a
+dandelion head.] What are you doing?
+
+FOOL. Wait a moment. [He blows.] Four, five, six.
+
+WISE MAN. What are you doing that for?
+
+FOOL. I am blowing at the dandelion to find out what time it is.
+
+WISE MAN. You have heard everything! That is why you want to find
+out what hour it is! You are waiting to see them coming through the
+door to carry me away. [FOOL goes on blowing.] Out through the door
+with you! I will have no one here when they come. [He seizes the
+FOOL by the shoulders, and begins to force him out through the
+door, then suddenly changes his mind.] No, I have something to ask
+you. [He drags him back into the room.] Is there a heaven? Is there
+a hell? Is there a purgatory?
+
+FOOL. So you ask me now. I thought when you were asking your
+pupils, I said to myself, if he would ask Teigue the Fool, Teigue
+could tell him all about it, for Teigue has learned all about it
+when he has been cutting the nets.
+
+WISE MAN. Tell me; tell me!
+
+FOOL. I said, Teigue knows everything. Not even the owls and the
+hares that milk the cows have Teigue's wisdom. But Teigue will not
+speak; he says nothing.
+
+WISE MAN. Tell me, tell me! For under the cover the grains are
+falling, and when they are all fallen I shall die; and my soul will
+be lost if I have not found somebody that believes! Speak, speak!
+
+FOOL [looking wise]. No, no, I won't tell you what is in my mind,
+and I won't tell you what is in my bag. You might steal away my
+thoughts. I met a bodach on the road yesterday, and he said,
+"Teigue, tell me how many pennies are in your bag. I will wager
+three pennies that there are not twenty pennies in your bag; let me
+put in my hand and count them." But I pulled the strings tighter,
+like this; and when I go to sleep every night I hide the bag where
+no one knows.
+
+WISE MAN. [Goes toward the hour-glass as if to uncover it.] No, no,
+I have not the courage! [He kneels.] Have pity upon me, Fool, and
+tell me!
+
+FOOL. Ah! Now, that is different. I am not afraid of you now. But I
+must come near you; somebody in there might hear what the Angel
+said.
+
+WISE MAN. Oh, what did the Angel tell you?
+
+FOOL. Once I was alone on the hills, and an Angel came by and he
+said, "Teigue the Fool, do not forget the Three Fires: the Fire
+that punishes, the Fire that purifies, and the Fire wherein the
+soul rejoices for ever!"
+
+WISE MAN. He believes! I am saved! Help me. The sand has run out.
+I am dying. ... [FOOL helps him to his chair.] I am going from the
+country of the seven wandering stars, and I am going to the country
+of the fixed stars! Ring the bell. [FOOL rings the bell.] Are they
+coming ? Ah! now I hear their feet. ... I will speak to them. I
+understand it all now. One sinks in on God: we do not see the
+truth; God sees the truth in us. I cannot speak, I am too weak.
+Tell them, Fool, that when the life and the mind are broken, the
+truth comes through them like peas through a broken peascod. But
+no, I will pray--yet I cannot pray. Pray Fool, that they may be
+given a sign and save their souls alive. Your prayers are better
+than mine.
+
+[FOOL bows his head. WISE MAN'S head sinks on his arm on the books.
+PUPILS enter.]
+
+A YOUNG MAN. Look at the Fool turned bell-ringer!
+
+ANOTHER. What have you called us in for, Teigue? What are you going
+to tell us?
+
+ANOTHER. No wonder he has had dreams! See, he is fast asleep now.
+[Goes over and touches the WISE MAN.] Oh, he is dead!
+
+FOOL. Do not stir! He asked for a sign that you might be saved.
+[All are silent for a moment.] Look what has come from his mouth. ...
+a little winged thing ... a little shining thing. It has gone to
+the door. [The ANGEL appears in the doorway, stretches out her
+hands and closes them again.] The Angel has taken it in her hands...
+she will open her hands in the Garden of Paradise.
+
+[They all kneel.]
+
+
+
+
+
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