remember all.

FINTAIN.

He will kill us. O, I am afraid!

CUCHULLAIN.

(Who is before Concobar's chair.)

'Twas you who did it, you who sat up there
With that old branch of silver, like a magpie
Nursing a stolen spoon. Magpie, Magpie,
A maggot that is eating up the earth!

(Begins hacking at the chair with his sword.)

No, but a magpie for he's flown away.
Where did he fly to?

FINTAIN.

He is outside the door.

CUCHULLAIN.

Outside the door?

FINTAIN.

He is under Baile's yew-tree.

CUCHULLAIN.

Concobar, Concobar, the sword into your heart.

(He goes out. A pause. The fool goes to the great door at back and
looks out after him.)

BARACH.

He is going up to King Concobar; they are all under the tree. No, no,
he is standing still. There is a great wave going to break and he is
looking at it. Ah! now he is running down to the sea, but he is
holding up his sword as if he were going into a fight. (A pause.) Well
struck, well struck!

FINTAIN.

What is he doing now?

BARACH.

O! he is fighting the waves.

FINTAIN.

He sees King Concobar's crown on every one of them.

BARACH.

There, he has struck at a big one. He has struck the crown off it, he
has made the foam fly. There again another big one. (Shouting
without.)

FINTAIN.

Where are the Kings? What are the Kings doing?

BARACH.

They are shouting and running down to the shore, and the people are
running out of the houses, they are all running.

FINTAIN.

You say they are running out of the houses, there will be nobody left
in the houses. Listen, fool.

BARACH.

There, he is down! He is up again! He is going out into the deep water.

FINTAIN.

Come here, fool; come here, I say.

BARACH.

(Coming towards him but looking backward towards the door.) What is it?

FINTAIN.

There will be nobody in the houses. Come this way, come quickly; the
ovens will be full; we will put our hands into the ovens. (They go
out.)

ESSAYS, ETC.

_By_ WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

"Leader of one of the most notable contemporary movements--the Celtic
revival in Ireland, decidedly a force to be reckoned with both at the
present moment and in the future."--_Boston Transcript._

THE CELTIC TWILIGHT

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