The Countess Cathleen by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
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(She goes.)
OONA (taking ALEEL by the arm and as she speaks bandaging his wound) She has found something now to put her hand to, And you and I are of no more account Than flies upon a window-pane in the winter. (They go out.) END OF SCENE 2. SCENE 3 SCENE.--Hall in the house of COUNTESS CATHLEEN. At the Left an oratory with steps leading up to it. At the Right a tapestried wall, more or less repeating the form of the oratory, and a great chair with its back against the wall. In the Centre are two or more arches through which one can see dimly the trees of the garden. CATHLEEN is kneeling in front of the altar in the oratory; there is a hanging lighted lamp over the altar. ALEEL enters. 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? |
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