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Read Ebook: The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats Vol. 3 (of 8) The Countess Cathleen. The Land of Heart's Desire. The Unicorn from the Stars by Yeats W B William Butler
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Destroyers of souls, may God destroy you quickly!
FIRST MERCHANT.
No curse can overthrow the immortal demons.
MAIRE.
You shall at last dry like dry leaves, and hang Nailed like dead vermin to the doors of God.
FIRST MERCHANT.
You shall be ours. This famine shall not cease. You shall eat grass, and dock, and dandelion, And fail till this stone threshold seem a wall, And when your hands can scarcely drag your body We shall be near you.
You may not see the Countess.
ANOTHER VOICE.
I must see her.
The Countess Cathleen must not be disturbed.
ANOTHER VOICE.
Man, I must see her.
CATHLEEN.
Who now wants me, Paudeen?
SERVANT .
A herdsman and his history.
CATHLEEN.
He may come.
Follow and bring them here again--beseech them.
Steward, you know the secrets of this house. How much have I in gold?
STEWARD.
A hundred thousand.
CATHLEEN.
How much have I in castles?
STEWARD.
As much more.
CATHLEEN.
How much have I in pastures?
STEWARD.
As much more.
CATHLEEN.
How much have I in forests?
STEWARD.
As much more.
CATHLEEN.
Keeping this house alone, sell all I have; Go to some distant country and come again With many herds of cows and ships of grain.
STEWARD.
God's blessing light upon your ladyship; You will have saved the land.
CATHLEEN.
Make no delay.
How did you thrive? Say quickly. You are pale.
SERVANT.
Their eyes burn like the eyes of birds of prey: I did not dare go near.
CATHLEEN.
God pity them! Bring all the old and ailing to this house, For I will have no sorrow of my own From this day onward.
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