There is a sound of
clashing
swords
from time to time during what follows.
from time to time during what follows.
Yeats
SECOND WOMAN.
Cuchulain has gone out to die.
THIRD WOMAN.
O! O!
SECOND WOMAN.
Who could have thought that one so great as he
Should meet his end at this unnoted sword!
FIRST WOMAN.
Life drifts between a fool and a blind man
To the end, and nobody can know his end.
SECOND WOMAN.
Come, look upon the quenching of this greatness.
[_The other two go to the door, but they stop for a
moment upon the threshold and wail. _
FIRST WOMAN.
No crying out, for there'll be need of cries
And knocking at the breast when it's all finished.
[_The WOMEN go out.
There is a sound of clashing swords
from time to time during what follows. _
[_Enter the FOOL dragging the BLIND MAN. _
FOOL.
You have eaten it, you have eaten it! You have left me nothing but the
bones.
[_He throws BLIND MAN down by big chair. _
BLIND MAN.
O, that I should have to endure such a plague! O, I ache all over! O,
I am pulled to pieces! This is the way you pay me all the good I have
done you!
FOOL.
You have eaten it! You have told me lies. I might have known you had
eaten it when I saw your slow, sleepy walk. Lie there till the kings
come.
