THE MUSIC FOR USE IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THESE PLAYS.
ON BAILE’S STRAND. THE FOOL’S SONG.
ON BAILE’S STRAND.—SONG OF THE WOMEN.
DEIRDRE. MUSICIANS’ SONG. —II.
DEIRDRE. MUSICIANS’ SONG. —III. Farr.
DEIRDRE. MUSICIANS’ SONG. —III. ALLGOOD.
THE UNICORN FROM THE STARS “The Airy Bachelor.”
THE UNICORN FROM THE STARS “Johnnie Gibbons.”
THE UNICORN FROM THE STARS “The Lion shall lose his strength.”
THE WIND BLOWS OUT OF THE GATES OF THE DAY.
I HAVE DRUNK ALE FROM THE COUNTRY OF THE YOUNG.
THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN
‘The sorrowful are dumb for thee.’
Lament of Morion Shehone for Miss Mary Bourke.
To Maud Gonne.
PERSONS IN THE PLAY
Shemus Rua, a peasant
Teig, his son
Aleel, a young bard
Maurteen, a gardener
The Countess Cathleen
Oona, her foster-mother
Maire, wife of Shemus Rua
Two Demons disguised as merchants
Musicians
Peasants, Servants, &c.
Angelical Beings, Spirits, and Faeries
The scene is laid in Ireland, and in old times.
THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN.
ACT I.
The cottage of SHEMUS REA. The door into the open air is at right side of room. There is a window at one side of the door, and a little shrine of the Virgin Mother at the other. At the back is a door opening into a bedroom, and at the left side of the room a pantry door. A wood of oak, beech, hazel, and quicken is seen through the window half hidden in vapour and twilight. MAIRE watches TEIG, who fills a pot with water. He stops as if to listen, and spills some of the water.
MAIRE.
You are all thumbs.
TEIG.
Hear how the dog bays, mother,
And how the gray hen flutters in the coop.
Strange things are going up and down the land,
These famine times: by Tubber-vanach crossroads
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