[front cover] NOTEBOOK 1

WB Yeats

W. CARSON 51, GRAFTON ST. CORNER OF STEPHENS GREEN DUBLIN BOOKSELLER & STATIONER1

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1 Stamped seal; Yeats’s signature is hand-written at top left of inside cover. WB Yeats 1 April 21st 84

1 Vol 1.

2 Love and Death

3 Time – Twelveth Century

these men 4 When we were not and old knights were 5 Loud did the crickets sing – 6 When we are dead, still without care shall 7 Loud did the crickets sing –

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1 Love and Death 2 2 a tragedy 3 Sintram - a Spirit Hunter 4 Moscon - His mortal brother 5 Ralph - Father of Ginevra 6 Sebald - a harper 7 Colin - a shepherd 8 Nobles peasants etc

9 Ginevra - a princess 10 Margeret - a waiting woman 11 Amoret - a shepherdess 12 Alice - a blind girl

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[blank page] 1 Act 1 3 2 Scene 1 – 3 A cave’s mouth a forest of pine 4 behind - a fire dimly burning 5 – The red light of the setting sun – 6 Enter Moscon a dead boar on his 7 shoulder he throws the boar down 8 and speaks thus while he is casting 9 branches on the fire

10 I Moscon am a sad and savage man 11 Here dwell I ’neath an ivy cinctured rock alone 12 Among eternal twilight on the sod 13 Where stand my brethern the changeless pine 14 So proud in their unnumbered centuries 15 And in the firmness of their sunless stems 16 Like titans gathering in their pride apart. 17 Here dwell I in the living rock alone 18 From their still shadows sucking balm to sooth 19 A sleepless ill called poor humanity

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[blank page] 1 That I have caught – I am not lonly here 4 2 When in the morn horizons burn and when 3 begins the dance and pean of the day 4 I see the company of timid ghosts 5 At evening also when the sun is low 6 Each with its finger to its lips goes by 7 Poor wild unutterable mysteries 8 My dear companions and mine only friends 9 For no word I have addressed to living man 10 Since those dim days of many years ago 11 My father died as I shall die when time 12 Has broken the speed of my restless feet, 13 As a sudden sorrow, speedy and light 14 When I find no help in this great bow 15 That sendeth its arrows speedy and 16 That sendeth its arrows fatal and fast 17 And fleet as the footfall of winds – This bow 18 Is not methinks a toy for old mens’ hands 19 Then some wild beast shall slay me mong the pine 20 Then shall my great twn twin brother shake may hap

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1 Some hoary mountains head and hurl the snow 5 2 To mightily entomb my scattered bones 3 And all the winds shall sing a funeral song 4 The fountains white throated their dirges sing. 5 But see how splendidly the day lies dead 6 and night the burning blood is lapping up 7 The royal towers far below shine read red 8 Clouds, vale, and misty mountain melt in flame 9 What mighty shaddow stands on yonder peak ago 10 Tis he whom long ^ the fairys stole 11 My great twin brother gazing down of 12 On me with face perplext with some vague care 13 Of late I have oft seen him gazing thus 14 He’s de gone I saw him slowly fade away 15 And with him all the holy hair of day 16 Has sunk into the silver night 17 And stealthy winds creep forth to dance 18 And revel on the froth of lakes 19 And wind their horns among the pine (Exit into cave)

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1 (The red sunlight fades slowly away 2 Till the wood is very dark save where 3 it is lit by the gleams of the fire 4 before the cave) 5 Enter three muffled shades who 6 stand warming their hands by before 7 the fire) 8 1 Shade 9 What sight see you 10 2 Shade 11 I see a bright star shining clear 12 A mist like a mans hand drawing near 13 1 shade 14 And you 15 3 Shade 16 A I see a maiden sitting alone 17 By the alien hearth of an alien home 18 And look ye theirs blood on the root 19 The pine treees’sborne a fearful fruit

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1 2 Shade 6 2 Lap ye the blood from the red pine trunk 3 1 Shade 4 Lets lap, lap Lets lap. 5 (they stoop) 6 3 Shade 7 ’T’as into the future sunk 8 2 Shade 9 Of him within 10 1 Shade 11 Draw near 12 (The other two gather round) 13 3 Shade 14 Peace, peace the lion man comes forth 15 (Moscon comes from his cave and makes 16 the sign of the cross. The three 17 grey shades creep away with 18 their fingers to their lips) 19 Moscon 20 They’re gone disturbers of my peace 21 (Exit into cave)

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1 Scene 2 7 2 The forest in the valley 3 A distant sound of hunters horns 4 Enter Ginevra leading Amoret 5 followed by a page holding a 6 falcon – 7 Ginevra 8 O Amoret my simple shepherdess 9 My queen of Arcady – you soon will find 10 Court life more merry than a shepherds days 11 And harper’s songs than woodland pipes 12 more sweet 13 And sound of fountains dimming all the noise the 14 Of passing people than ^ voice of streams 15 More cadent far. You’ll be my fairest maid – 16 Ho page! come take her hand tis thy new friend 17 I found her by a streamlets shady marge 18 Cooling her feet in the idle water 19 No friend she has save one, that one she says 20 Pays not her love with fit return of love

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1 So she has come with us, ho page sir page 8 2 Among those pale exotics of the court 3 My waiting maids – this wild wood rose we’ll plant 4 So come my waif of Arcady 5 (Exeunt)

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1 Scene 3 9 2 (Another part of the forest – a rose 3 bush in the fore ground) 4 Enter Colin (with a cup) 5 So with the princess she has gone from me 6 O cruel Amoret but here Ill die 7 And lay me down and clasp about the stem 8 Of this rose tree, we two together set 9 And made our vows above in days gone by 10 And here Ill hang mine [?]ten pipes drown dumb 11 Poor quills who never played of aught but love 12 (he hangs his shepherd pipes on the rose bush) 13 Fit dying place for thee, fit place for me – 14 Grow on oh tree till thou art standing high 15 Above thy fellows monument of love n 16 And neath thy leaves sad shepherds shall deplore ^ 17 Their love and cry against the world, But nay 18 I had forgot you’re but a rose bush small 19 A poplar had been best a poplar great 20 Tis there my pipes dumb grown with grief and love

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1 Ill drink the poison from my horned cup 10 2 Ill bind it round with roses, thus, thus, thus 3 The roses that she loved for it is meet 4 I leave with loving stirrup cup this world 5 This lodging house where we a little rest 6 And think we are at home. I go proud world a 7 Ill Ill drink a tost to thee O rose bush sad ^ may 8 That you will grow for ever, higher, higher, 9 But nay a poplar had been best – farewell 10 Farewell, O cruel Amoret, farewell 11 No more at harvest feasts Ill play my pipes 12 (he raises the cup) 13 (Enter Sebald the Old harper) 14 Sebald 15 Ho peasant I have lost my way and would 16 Fain reach the towers of the king fore night shall 17 You can have pay if you can show the road 18 Colin (aside) 19 T’is some great lord 20 (aloud) Ill do your bidding sir

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1 (puts the cup on the ground) 11 return 2 Farewell, good cup, good tree, Ill soon be back 3 Rose tree that should have been a poplar tall 4 An odd few minutes more of this proud world 5 Then Ill be back again 6 Sebald 7 Lead on, Lead on – 8 (exeunt) 9 After a pause enter Moscon 10 Moscon 11 Who is that maid so wondrous pale who lives 12 With that old charcoal b burner where the stream 13 Devides the silent forest from the plain 14 All day the black bir birds hold a high debate 15 Beneath the shady copse around her hut 16 As though they wrangled of her shining hair 17 And yet 18 Her face is swe sweet and sorrowful and calm 19 And yet my father called all women false 20 Indeed I fear it must be so for he

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1 Was wise, most wise, most wonderfully wise 12 2 Whats this 3 (Find the cup) 4 Why it is wine yes surely wine 5 I never tasted wine of any sort 6 I thought it was more red than this, Ill drink 7 Unto thy face most beautiful unknown 8 Thy heart I know must be most false 9 (drinks) 10 Tis sour (throws the cup down) 11 I think but ill of human taste – Ill go 12 And sit me in the shade of some great tree 13 And sigh about her face and sigh still more 14 About the faithless heart it hides 15 (exit) 16 (Enter Colin) 17 Colin 18 I’ve dodged the old man and I’m here again 19 So then farewel o world, false world, proud world. 20 (Finds the cup)

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here 1 Tis drunk and hear be foot marks on the ground 13 Pans 2 Some one has drunk it all, and by pans self 3 And by the fawns and by all shepherd gods 4 and by the Demeter sad and Proserpine 5 And by the spring – I sware that he will die 6 Now hence to find him dead with three good swains 7 Two for his head and for his feet two more 8 (Exit)

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1 Scene 4 14 pine 2 Another part of the forest ^ 3 Moscon in a swoon in the foreground 4 Enter Colin and three peasants 5 1 peasant 6 You by the thre sl tree stump is the 7 man we seek 8 2 peasant 9 A great pale man with tangled hair 10 1 peasant 11 Lift him 12 3 peasant 13 He’s not yet dead 14 Colin 15 He soon will be 16 1 peasant 17 Look you 18 How huge the bow he had four fingers thick 19 (they hand the bow about among them)

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1 2 peasant 15 2 ‘en you long John could scarcely bend that bow 3 3 peasant 4 Nor be so shure of that 5 2 peasant 6 But you’l not try 7 I know you well 8 3 peasant 9 He was a man of might 10 He would have been the king of charcoal men 11 Colin 12 He would have been a peerless shepherd lad 13 But who alas is in his right employ 14 Or keeps the measure of his life in tune 15 3 peasant 16 Look to his pockets they are lawful game 17 2 peasant 18 If he be dead it pays his burial 19 3 peasant 20 And if he live the finders must be paid

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1 1 peasant 16 2 Nor yet do so he is a knight – Perhaps 3 His people are not far away – We’d best 4 Look out for ransom it were better pay 5 And some good league more safe in case they come Come 6 2 peasant 7 Best see what he has got and leave him here 8 3 peasant 9 He’s mine I found him first 10 1 peasant 11 Come take him up 12 And bear him to my hut. My foster child 13 She that is blind may cure him of his hurt 14 (What’er it be) for she is skilld i skilled 15 in herbs 16 3 peasant 17 And then the whole reward is thine, you think 18 1 peasant 19 And I’ve the right

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1 3 peasant 17 2 No for No for he’s mine 3 I found him first 4 1 peasant 5 No fool he’s mine 6 3 peasent 7 me fool 8 1 peasant 9 Yes fool 10 3 peasant 11 Take that 12 (strikes him) 13 Colin (parting them) 14 What spoil there is ye shall divide 15 Lift him. we’ll take him to thy hut old man 16 2 peasent 17 And if he dies his cloak is mine 18 3 peasent 19 we’ll share 20 Lets bare bear him off (they lift Moscon)

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1 1 peasant 18 2 What shall I tell my child 3 Has hurted him 4 Colin 5 A sun-stroke I – I think 6 (exeunt)

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1 Act 2 19 2 Scene 1 3 A room in the castle with 4 high pointed windows 5 Enter Ginevra followed by Amoret 6 Margaret and other other waiting 7 women crowned with wreaths of flowers 8 Amoret – 9 The day is done – Throw now your wreaths 10 aside 11 Alas that flowers in a may day wreath grow 12 Should wane and so sickley on their stems ^ 13 So may day’s almost gone again – 14 Its eve 15 Is like a dying rose who’s crimson face black 16 And curving petals are usurped with plack 17 As on the rose I pluck from out my hair 18 This piteous citizen of plundered spring 19 Is like -

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1 Ginevra 20 2 What moralize upon may day 3 Why Amoret, girl Amoret your sad 4 And bowed with thought as though thy 5 Summers were 6 So many winters doubled thrice – or sad 7 As though the villain rain had spoilt 8 may day 9 Margaret 10 Methinks there was a cloud on her may day 11 A gallant whom I wot of was not there 12 Theve fallen out 13 Ginevra 14 Loves quarrels are as light 15 As the impetuous froth of the salt sea 16 Aye lighter far 17 Amoret 18 O no I’m sore afraid 19 Their whole worlds deep

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[blank page] 1 Margeret 21 2 But yours are not Ill sware 3 And why he’s but a landless man at best 4 Amoret 5 But then – 6 Ginevra 7 How high would you look Margaret 8 A waiting woman 9 All though she is the youngest of us all 10 She’d have an emperor or king at least 11 Margaret 12 A knight crusader with a cross of red 13 Who’d been unto the holy land and faught – 14 saricens 15 The sarizens and turks whom Mary hates 16 And did a dragon slay and had its skin 17 And when he was away I’d keep his house 18 And rule his vassals with a swerveless hand 19 When’er I passed they’d bow meek heads and 20 say

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r 1 Behold the warior lady of our lord ^ 2 My very shadow’d be a thing to fear 3 Waiting Woman 4 I told you how exalted ’bove us all she is 5 Ginevra 6 O yes all those of low dg degree look high 7 And those who are set high would fain be low 8 Now I am weary of embattled walls 9 Of dancing and of courtiers bowing low 10 And all the things that lose for us ourselves 11 The very walls are wearisome to me 12 There wandering alone I seek for peace for 13 And the lone nymph quietness – But gloom ^ 14 The evil brother of poor peace I find – 15 For I’m oppressed with gazing on the pine 16 Their heads the very spring doth never change 17 This might be Hades where the spring is not 18 And if I lift mine eyes and seek afar 19 Beyond the land of pine the loud sea is 20 That is no cordial for restless hearts

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1 Waiting Woman 22 you’re

2 Yes you’re by far too fond of solitude 3 I would not be alone for all the world 4 Ginevra 5 And I would like to live afar from here 6 Not great nor poor but rich enough for peace 7 In that bright land where old storks 8 bring their young 9 Away from winter winds and winters woes 10 And I would have for lord some peaceful man 11 Who loved the people and their way and works 12 And he would build for me a home of brick 13 A laughter peopled castle in the sun 14 A house not cold and grey and grim like this 15 But where the green vine hangs its pointed leaves 16 And I would have there peacocks four and grounds 17 Where grass grows long and bountiful and free 18 Around the roots of many a mossy tree 19 That in ripe autumn like small lamps of red 20 Would on the tangled grass bright apples shed

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1 and there a sun dial I would have all round 23 2 with climbing of the dark green melons bound 3 An old world garden where the birdly throng 4 Doze almost out of memory of song 5 An old world garden wh with a pools soft sheen 6 Where ’neath broad weeds the sleeping pike are seen 7 An old world garden where with folded wing 8 All summer long the hours sit and sing 9 An old world garden where the calm dreams 10 nod 11 Dream nodding to dream or the shady sod 12 An old world garden where the pulse and beat 13 Alone is heard of summers rushing feet 14 There far away from courts I’d live and die 15 [Enter page] 16 But I have found a batch of friendly dreams 17 And here’s a herald from the under world eirie 18 Who’d drag us from their dizzy ayery down. 19 Speak for your self your, sin is great 20 Sir page

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1 Page 24 2 The famous harper Sebald has returned 3 He sings unto the people in the hall 4 Of Rowl Roland and his friend dead 5 Olivér 6 And of the trumpet blast of Fonteurault 7 And how the bright blades sprang at 8 Fonteurault 9 And Charlmagnes bitter [?wroth] at 10 Fonteurault 11 He sings of Rolands uncle whom 12 god curse 13 And of – 14 Ginevra 15 Be still lead on we’ll follow thee 16 As fast as though the heathen were behind 17 (exeunt)

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1 Scene 2 25 2 A ruined tower 3 A tomb in the foreground on 4 Which a gnome sits cross-legged 5 Gnome 6 I like to read my epetaph 7 And stretch my bones here once a day 8 Fealing warm evening winds 9 Stir in my thin grey hair 10 T’is a mouldy place below 11 Under the deep cut epetaph 12 See here they’ve cut it chiseled thus 13 (reads) 14 “A gnome once terror of this land” 15 “Lies here god rest his sinful soul” 16 Ay rest his soul, ‘Ay rest his soul 17 His soul shall rest and never fear 18 When of thy house king Ralph 19 A man shall fall for every blow 20 Of steel upon the stone

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1 Ten years ago as in felling me 26 2 Thy sword in slaying me raised up 3 My gossips and my friends 4 The spirits of the pine gainst thee 5 And all the people of thy house 6 The stranger at thy door shall die 7 The dogs before thy gate 8 Yea thy whole house will fall 9 The goat upon thy walls will climb 10 The laughing fays will dance 11 weaving circles green 12 ’Mong bones that are shining 13 With pallor of snow 14 Sunk in the dewy grass 15 Yea, bones as white as snow – 16 The little agile fays agile fays 17 With chatter and dancing 18 The pinions will feather 19 Of hours a fleating 20 Each stone moss encumbered

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1 In the moony quiet 27 2 Of the roofless towers, 3 Will harbour a fairy 4 As a moon flake of light 5 O time will be speeding 6 In halls that are royal 7 As never it speedeth 8 In days of the striving 9 Of planner of Tourney 10 Of Masque makers labour 11 O the dead walls will ring 12 With singing and laughter 13 From lips that are redder 14 Than reddest ash berries 15 And nodding their bright heads e 16 The wild foottd fairys fairies ^ 17 The courtier fairies will bow 18 To Mab the illustrious queen 19 Proudest and fairest of fairies 20 O then shall be feasting king Ralph

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1 Not Ralph for thee. Not Ralph for thine 28 2 But the bones are for thee, and thy people 3 From thy beautiful daughter king Ralph 4 I will fashion a flame for consuming 5 Thee, and thy house, and thy people thy 6 Smitten are life will blossom 7 The fruit and the flower of sin 8 For I joy in the fall of the gracious 9 The fall of the gentle of heart 10 And then in victorious sleep 11 My ghost shall rest in the tomb 12 (Starts up standing) 13 The clock has struck 14 The time’s at hand 15 The years have flown 16 My peace is near 17 (blows his horn) 18 Gather from the quarters four horn 19 To the sound of the masters four 20 Come all unholy things

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1 Hence and wing the song of Moscon 29 2 With slumbering memories 3 Voice it as his brother’s 4 The song soul of the pine 5 “Tis done, Tis done, Tis done” 6 I hear the far off lips 7 Of the fountains low reply 8 I hear the little trumpets sound 9 Of an hundred thousand streamlets 10 “Tis done, Tis done Tis done” 11 Er the new moon is old 12 The final fate will come 13 + + + 14 My time of grace has passed away 15 Once more I seek the tomb 16 ’Mong the worms and the dark earth beatles 17 I lie till you are dead 18 O Ralph and your people 19 Hark the far off echo 20 O some great lonely rock

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1 Sendeth back the sound triumphant 30 2 Of my horn to me returning 3 (sinks into the tomb) 4 ______

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1 Scene 3 31 2 An antique room gothic windows 3 S enter Ginevra and Waiting 4 women – 5 Ginevra 6 How is the clock 7 1 waiting Woman 8 The time is close on three 9 Ginevra 10 Last eve about this hour ‘mong the pine 11 I wandered by that shadow peopled path 12 That leads I think unto a peasant’s house 13 Waiting woman 14 O who would live among the haunted pine 15 Ginevra 16 I saw a hunter resting on his bow 17 Among the trembling forest lights and sing 18 Of love and sorrow’s endless brotherhood 19 To ease his heart it seemed

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1 Waiting Woman 32 2 O wonderful 3 When hunters sing shall all the trees be tongued 4 Ginevra 5 He was not of the common sort – (heigh ho 6 My heart has gone from me for that sweet voice) 7 And yet not it but sudden memory 8 That is has roused unto new kindling life 9 About a child I knew full long ago 10 The hunters face or song I know not which 11 Has oped the doors and ta’en the seal from off 12 An old deserted chamber of my brain 13 And let embattled memories rush out – 14 Is Sintrams name familiar to your ears 15 He was a fai boy a fairy plundered boy 16 Wai [Enter Sebald at a 17 distant door] 18 Waiting Woman 19 Here comes the holy churches enemy

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1 Ginevra 33 2 Tis Sebald see you not the golden chain 3 He wears, he won it from a southern bard 4 Down by the vine hung margins of the Rhine 5 They fought with war of song, The vanquished 6 bard 7 Laid deadly hands upon himself for grief 8 Waiting Woman 9 We’ll go we do not love that fearful man 10 (exeunt waiting Women) 11 Ginevra 12 How is it Sebald, though you sing great 13 songs 14 and are a famous courtier and a sage 15 All these my waiting woman fear you so 16 You whom so many courts have hail’d most wise 17 Sebald 18 Most radiant princess wisdom is a plant vase 19 That seldom flowers in a gilden rock 20 But loves the rock, and wisdoms nurse old 21 age

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1 Has faded eyes few hairs, and features stern. 34 2 These are but paltry bubbles of the court 3 Thou hast with you 4 Ginevra 5 Come sit ye down, I’ll sit 6 I’ve wished for some time past to question you 7 Can you recall the tale of Biorn’s sons 8 One whom I knew of old was Sintram called 9 His brother (I forget his name) they said 10 Was like him as is reed to reed in spring on 11 As yet unblown by the vagrant blast ^ 12 For they were twins – Speak I would know 13 their fate 14 Sebald fairies 15 When he was very young – The fairys stole ^ 16 Young Sintram whom you knew – The other 17 child 18 Whom they called Moscon, with his father passed 19 The outlawed earl unto another land 20 Tis said for never trace was found of them

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NOTEBOOK 2

W. CARSON 51, GRAFTON ST. CORNER OF STEPHENS GREEN DUBLIN BOOKSELLER & STATIONER2

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2 Stamped seal on inside cover. 1 WB Yeats

Vol 2

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[blank page] 1 Ginevra 2 2 T’was Sintram that I heard 3 Sebald 4 What said you then 5 Beneath your breath? 6 Ginevra 7 Why naught unless it be 8 I wondered if you ever were in love 9 Sebald 10 No child I hold the sorrows of one man 11 And his own brooding thoughts shall make 12 him grey 13 But if he take another to his house 14 Her sorrows shall be his beside his own 15 Ginevra ies 16 What of him the fairys stole? ^ 17 Sebald 18 Among the pine 19 He rules the fleeting shadows and he hath 20 His court in rising and in setting suns

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1 His name is mighty by the rushy marge 3 2 And loud above the froth of haunted lakes. 3 Full oft belated wanderers mong the pine 4 Have heard a sound of hunting and have seen 5 pass by the Phantom hunter and his hounds 6 His father is the foe of all this house 7 If he still live, but most I fear the son 8 There is an ancient prophesy by me 9 Uncharnelled from old legend lore that saith 10 No mortal hand shall over-throw this house 11 But Sintram is no mortal and tis known 12 Naught living sees him near and lives 13 But hark a voice 14 Moscon (in the distance sings) 15 See the flashing waters 16 A cloven dancing jet 17 From the milk white marble 18 For ever foam and fret 19 Far in the drowsy meaddow meadow 20 Where yellow saffrons blow

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[blank page] 1 The feet of summer dabble 4 2 In their coiling calm and slow 3 The banks are worn for ever 4 By a people sadly gay 5 A Titan with loud laughter 6 Made of the mingled spray 7 Go ask the springing flowers 8 And flowing air above 9 What are the twin born waters 10 They’d answer death and love

e 11 Baring withered flowers ^ 12 Two lonly spirits wait e 13 Baring withered flowers ^ 14 ’Fore paradises gait 15 They may not pass the portal 16 Poor earth enkindled pair 17 Though sad is many a spirit 18 To pass and leave them there 19 Staring and their flowers

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1 That dull and faded are 5 2 If one rise beside thee 3 The other is not far

4 Go ask the youngest angel bated 5 She will say with baited breath 6 By the door of Mary’s garden spirits and 7 Are the spirats love death ^ ^

8 I was happy in the green wood 9 And careless of the morrow 10 Till by the stealing rivers 11 I saw the pilgrim sorrow 12 Beneath a shady cypress 13 Sitting on a mossy seat 14 I saw in the water 15 Bathe his aching feet 16 I took them from the water 17 I wept upon them there 18 The feet of pilgrim sorrow

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1 and I wipt them with my hair 6

2 But if you’ll come he’ll vanish 3 And the sun will will shine again 4 But if you’ll come he’ll vanish 5 And the woods will laugh again

6 Sebald 7 The honeyed voice of some aeriel thing 8 (Ginevra is going) 9 Why do you sigh and tremble at the song 10 Come back who sang? 11 Ginevra 12 Where nearest sweeps the pine 13 I’ve heard the song before – a hunter sang 14 We have not spoken but I’m worlds in love 15 Sebald 16 Child 17 Ginevra 18 Nay not the man the voice I meant

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[blank page] 1 Sebald 7 2 Though silence is the manna of the soul 3 Yet fear the pine they are a haunted race 4 At times a mournful flame will ripple past 5 Along the sorrel leaves from gloom to gloom 6 A dwarf at times will leep along the ground 7 Will shriek and laugh and then is gone again once more 8 At times a lonly glade will sudden ring 9 With horses hoofs and crash of shattered spears 10 As though two knights had met in mid carreer is 11 And then tis gone and naught was seen or changed 12 But silence seems to gather round more deep – 13 Or with their long beards nodding up and down 14 A troop of old men in white robes go by 15 And many singing shades are there – such was 16 The one who sang – For never mortal man 17 Lives mong the windless and the birdless dusk a 18 Of that dred wood. Beyond the outer edge ^ 19 The very charcoal burners who were made

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1 Too low for stroke of doom will venture not 8 2 O fear that w land – there dwells a curse that fell 3 on many a father of thy gloomy race 4 Ginevra (going near to him) 5 I place my hair by thine and it is bright 6 But yours is old and thin and very white 7 (Exit) 8 Sebald (alone) 9 Tis well for bards to brood on graves gone by 10 And on the grave to come and hear their voice 11 And ever gaze on silence’s grey eyes 12 But laughter and bright deeds are childrens 13 part 14 Yet she is not as other children be 15 Some day she may inherit mine old harp f[ ? ] 16 And it will gloat and ring with f[ ? ] 17 lyric joy song 18 And feel the living touch of passions fire 19 And flash m new singing in the bardic choir ______

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1 Scene 4 9 2 A long corridor with gothic 3 pillars and windows at the 4 far end a huge window through 5 which the pine wood appears lit 6 up by the setting sun that 7 during the brog progress of the scene 8 grows redder and redder 9 At the far end of the corridor 10 Enter Ginevra r 11 Ginevra (coming down the coridor) ^ 12 Why does that spirit song so trouble me? 13 Is’t memory of faded days or love 14 (a love the nurseling of unhuman pride) 15 For some fantastic thing of wandering air? 16 Yes memory of faded days or love? 17 When in that ancient castle lived we twain 18 And saw the days pass by in careless peace 19 Each bringing some new joy – In those fair days 20 The hours like a troop of maidens gay

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lillies 1 Some crowned with roses, and with lilys some 10 2 With streaming hair passed by in endless song – ie 3 The swallows nested on the ivyed walls whispers 4 From woodlands came the [ ? ] manyfold 5 At eve the murmur of the laden bees bees – 6 Now man the alien of the world has t-ken Ta’en 7 His pining and unrest from from those calm 8 Walls

9 Within his banquet hall the swallows rest 10 The lonly heron sleeps upon the wall 11 And joy and peace sit there carousing still 12 The ageless hours pass with self-same song 13 Though banished is the lord of that old house 14 Why then such storm in after memory 15 Yet it is memory 16 (turns the other way and speaks 17 excitidly) one wild

18 Nay old all the earth is loud with wone word 19 The little voices of the rivers cry

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1 The voices of the far woodlands cry I love 11 2 This thing of air – a mist takes shape 3 Deep in the gloom by yonder wreathed arch 4 I see the two children sitting side by side 5 See one is crying and the other speaks 6 Peace soul, peace soul, hear thou the elders voice 7 Upon the other look not ti’s thy self 8 See how the the bright hair glows around his face 9 His hand lies fair on yonder pillars curve 10 Just where the Pomogranites hang in stone 11 The hand that rules above the forest now 12 His lips are moving, peace he speaks, he speaks 13 (she stands still) 14 O who may taste the honey of dead flowers 15 Or hear the breathing voices of the past 16 I may not hear mine own loved Sintrams 17 voice 18 These are the phantoms of ten years 19 ago ye 20 Tell me, are these living children, tell me, ^

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1 (advances to pillar) 12 2 Ye vanish progeny of my poor brain 3 fiery 4 Nothing more – ye are but fairy memory 5 (turns the other was toward way 6 and becomes composed) 7 A thought, a memory is like a lute 8 That hangs upon the arras in the hall 9 ’Mong shields and armour and the hunting horns 10 A lute that hath not spoken many years 11 Till found by chance a stranger touch the strings 12 Uncaring and unknowing whose it was then 13 And the listners hear its sweet complaint ^ 14 So is a thought when once aroused by chance 15 To its oer mastering self it bows all down 16 And does usurp the fiery might of love 17 So am I made the sport of memory – 18 How splendidly the flame-red flower eve 19 Has hurled its crimson petals oer the world 20 (Turns and paces the other way becoming 21 immediately excited)

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1 Why is it when I turn myself this way 13 2 And face the country of the haunted pine 3 My thoughts are with a burning signet 4 stamped – 5 O holy Mary look upon thy child 6 See what is standing twixt the earth and sky 7 My joy my terror and my splendid love fiery 8 Half fashioned of the fairy sunsits glow 9 Sintram, Sintram 10 My childish love, my friend of long ago 11 Sintram, Sintram 12 (she stand gazing out of the 13 windows till the light has paled) 14 he has vanished 15 (exit)

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1 Scene 5 14 2 A glade in the forest 3 Enter Alice and Moscon with 4 a bundle of herbs – 5 Alice 6 How has your searching sped fall many sick 7 Will need to thank thank thee for these herbs 8 Moscon 9 Behold 10 The moutain twelve you asked me for I have 11 Behold blue purple green and fretted white 12 Your twelve apostles in the holy art 13 You’re sad? 14 Alice 15 Nay see I smile I am not sad 16 I thank thee in my peasants name for these 17 And in my own – The flowers that you bring 18 You called them blue and purple some, and white 19 I only know them by their smells and shapes 20 For I am blind these many lightless years

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1 But yet the past and future grow more near 15 2 To those the present holds with lightest hands 3 I had a vision in the midmost night 4 Of thee that makes me sad – 5 Lead me I pray 6 Unto the fallen pine that lies near by 7 That I may rest and tell it thee 8 Moscon 9 Tis here 10 I lead these here, as you my gentle maid 11 Led me a poor wild forester again 12 Unto the holy saints and love of men 13 Alice 14 A sudden gleam of colour seemed to come 15 First like a mist, then like a maiden crowned 16 And yet no maid for never mortal maid 17 I think had eyes of such a fearful calm 18 It took my hand and bid me rise in tones ghastly 19 More wild than screach owls call though low ^ 20 – I rose

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1 And passed with it among the still pine trees 16 air 2 An And went with it, soon by the oderous calm 3 And calm I knew we were among the pine 4 As footing of the wi past again passed 5 As footing of the wind we not until ^ 6 I saw before my feet a silent hall 7 And hand and hand the thing and I passed in 8 - Upon the ground the tall wariors lay who held 9 Some cups and some had drawn their mantles close 10 As though with sudden sh chill but all were dead 11 Some lay upon the ground but most sat still pallid 12 Around the tables in a pallid throng all dead 13 All dead – Upon a throne top’t dais raised 14 Near by the further end a maiden sat breast

15 With head hung low upon her brest – The thing 16 That held my hand said “dead” I looked on it 17 With her upon the throne it seemed as one 18 Near that dead crownéd maid methought you lay 19 The thing sighed “dead”, and I awoke the voice 20 Still ringing wildly in mine ears that felt

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1 The silence of the wood more dread, and then 17 2 Afar above the trees I saw dawn burn 3 Moscon 4 Fear not I’m but a simple forester 5 My death will never come beneath a roof 6 From this my seat upon the fallen tree 7 I see high up the mountains misty slope 8 Not far beneath the gleam of ancient snows 9 A dead and solitary tree that rears 10 A tempest blanched and sapless length on high 11 Above it’s kind that leave a glade around 12 As though they sank from it’s forsaken streng strength 13 Near that high tree there is a hollow rock 14 Who’s mouth’s unknown to any feet save mine 15 M Mine and the printless footing of the wind 16 There I shall live and die unless mayhap or 17 Some mountain bear of wounded boar at bay 18 Shall slay me in his lonly rage – Why then 19 Should you whom fate used ill man worse 20 Than fate

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1 Make yourself sad with vacant augury 18 2 I hear your foster fathers step close by 3 Upon the pine cones and the noisy leaves 4 Farewell, Farewel 5 Farewell, the bands of mine old fif life will still 6 A bit fain keep me from men’s company 7 Farewell, farewell my sweetest councillor 8 (Enter an old peasant running) 9 Alice 10 Farewel, if you must go 11 Moscon return 12 Ill soon be back 13 Peasent 14 How is your sun’s stroke sir? 15 Moscon 16 T’is well 17 Peasent (to Alice) 18 Hussy 19 Be gone you know the way as well as I spite 20 In spight of those owls eyes, owls see at night

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1 Moles eyes – ay that’s the better word. Moles eyes 19 2 (Exit Alice) 3 Moscon 4 Old man 5 Peasent 6 And is’nt she my foster child 7 Now sir just wait I’d have a word with you 8 Upon the day you were with sunstroke down 9 The Shepherd Colin and those other two 10 Would after robbing you have left you there 11 Hawks food, worms food. But I (you see 12 this mark 13 Upon my face), brought you away by force 14 Now Sir or rather noble knight – 15 Moscon 16 I see 17 I’ll come again you shall have pay 18 Peasant 19 Stay now 20 Nor altogether that I meant but this

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1 Moscon 20 2 O I’ll be back again return again 3 (Exit up the mountain) 4 Peasant (shouting) a- 5 And see you keep your fire alit all night 6 The banded pards and mountain bears are up 7 They slew a sheep last night, a goodly sheep 8 There was no better ten miles round nay twelve 9 Moscon (shouting from above) 10 I’ll not forget 11 Peasent (shouting) 12 And if the phantoms speak 13 Then answer not again 14 Moscon (from above) 15 Look here old man 16 T’is not for naught I’ve ranged the wood ten years 17 Peasent 18 Hot blood, young blood he’s half up the mount 19 (shouts) 20 Guard well your neck sir knight among the rocks

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1 He’s out of hearing now, hot blood, young blood 21 2 Methinks I’d had a better bargain far 3 To do as those two loons had wished me do purse 4 To take his cloak and purse and leave 5 leave him there 6 Twere worth a crown or two, nay four at least. 7 When once he has the pine twixt him and me 8 I’ll never see him more who now will say 9 That grey beards are the nurse of wisdom calm 10 And forethought sage for I have been a fool 11 And have disgraced mine age. I’ve been a fool

12 Exit

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1 Act 3 22

2 Scene 1 3 a dark stone room decked with columns 4 strange figures columbs and 5 Alchemists tools - a flight 6 of stone steps lead to a door 7 above 8 Sebald stooping over a small 9 furnace 10 Enter at the door above bearer 11 a torch barer followed by 12 Ginevra attended 13 Ginevra 14 You saw them talking say you? bearer 15 Torch barer 16 Aye lady – 17 Ginevra 18 And knew them not

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bearer 1 Torch barer 23 2 I did not know them lady 3 1 waiting Woman (still on the steps) 4 O gossips we have done a wondrous deed 5 We’ve let the light 6 We’ve oped the doors and let the light on hell 7 2 waiting woman 8 Now kee 9 Tschaw how the brimstone smells 10 3 waiting woman 11 Now keep as saints 12 Ginevra (to Sebald) 13 I’m here about the thing you know of sir – 14 Master him whom I wish to see you know 15 1 waiting woman 16 Now holy Mary be though mercifful merciful 17 2 waiting woman 18 To raise the devil is against the church 19 1 waiting woman 20 (begins telling her beads

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1 3 waiting Woman 24 2 Good sir, the sight of him would kill us all 3 Ginevra 4 Have peace hence fools and wait me by the door 5 Ye talk of lofty things ye know not of 6 Good friend I pray thee hold my cloak for me 7 Go wait without the door till ye are c called 8 (They hurry out) 9 Sebald but 10 Your waiting women are timed souls ^ 11 Ginevra 12 Among the changeless woods their fathers lived 13 And passed a quiet folk to quiet graves 14 They knew not war or cunning of thy song 15 What wondrous thing if fear for ever sits 16 To warm his worn heart by their chimney corners 17 And jog their elow elbows in the public way 18 As native as the spots on wood peckers 19 Is fear unto the harmless peasants race 20 Here sit I down in this old carved chair

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1 That standeth chatting as it were with thine 25 2 (Sits down) 3 Do not the dead men come and sit down here 4 When thy old fingers sweep along the harp – 5 Does Paris come at times I think t’is so 6 And tell thee of the blue of Helens eyes 7 As yet untamed by Hades’ mist – s 8 And when you sing sits old Ulyses here ^ 9 The thin old greek with his keen eyes of grey 10 And tells thee of the strong things done of old 11 When through the froth smote all the sounding 12 oars 13 And draws the sea stained cloak about his chin 14 As though the foam sang all around him still here tells 15 And hear the long armed Esop sits and talks 16 Of how the earth was green in Latium 17 How green the earth was in the olden days 18 Is it not so? 19 Sebald 20 Shall I perform the spell

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1 Ginevra 26 2 Is not the ground o’er trod with holy feet 3 Sebald 4 (his hand on a curtain that hangs 5 at the back of the stage) 6 What hour of the day shall I recall 7 (Ginevra (pointing to the top of a 8 stone shelf of alchemists 9 tools) 10 Yet stay, why are the pipes of Pan carved there 11 Is it because before the bearth birth 12 of years 13 Gifts all the happy gods to science gave 14 And pan f Pan from mong his bounding Satyres 15 cried - 16 A greater gift than all these gods I give swear 17 By these my hoofs and curvéd horns I sware 18 For tunes of Pan shall wrap they rop robe alway 19 And laugh in every sweeping fold it has 20 Is it not so?

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1 I will delay no more 27 2 Sebald you know what I have come to see 3 And let the time be twelve of yesterday 4 Draw back the curtain I am very firm 5 (Sebald draws the curtain and shows 6 a magic mirror fore which 7 are burning herbs that send up 8 oderous vapour – a bright light 9 from the mirror fills the room) 10 Sebald do 11 What see you ? see? 12 Ginevra 13 a mist and nothing more 14 Sebald 15 What now? 16 Ginevra 17 I see a vision of dim trees 18 Among the twilight of the haunted wood 19 The shrivilled pine cones strew the grassless 20 ground

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1 Like columns of blue smoke the pine trees 28 2 rise 3 On one I see a little nut hatch climb 4 And peck without a sound upon the stem 5 An owl goes by and sinks among the trees 6 For it is everlasting evening there 7 These things , I see, naught else 8 Sebald 9 Look once again 10 Ginevra 11 Upon a beaten track that wanders wide 12 Beneath an even stretch of sword bright sky 13 I see two walking with short steps in talk – 14 Behind, before the deep blue pine-wood shade, 15 Of ageless night unhaunted of the moon – 16 Their lips move as with those who talk of love 17 I hear no word and with out sound they tread 18 On oer the withered cones and roots of pine 19 His face and hair – illuminated face – 20 Their lips move as with those who talk of love 21 (faints)

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1 Sebald (rushing to the door) 29 2 The princess faints, help, help – 3 (Enter Waiting Women)

4 1 Waiting Woman 5 Tis all against the holy church

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1 Scene 2 30 2 A Room in the palace 3 Ginevra sleeping on a couch 4 in the foreground – Waiting 5 Women about 6 Ginevra (in her sleep) uneasy 7 Thou are unesy in thy grave, sayst thou – ^ 8 So of us two you are the ghost not I – 9 O cross legged sitter on the stone, know’est him 10 He his above the cedars and the pine 11 Above the pine and cedars dwelleth he changeless of thine 12 Thy name? What means that evelasting smile ^ 13 Answer me spirit – what the stone is bare 14 Why to the beetles of the earth so fast? 15 1 Waiting Woman 16 She wakes. 17 Ginvera 18 There is no legend on the stone 19 gone, gone, outworn, by footing of old time

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1 2 Waiting Woman 31 2 These many days she has been raving thus 3 Ginevra (awaking) 4 Oh my good friends I have been raving sore 5 Go swiftly send for Sebald and his harp 6 I’m sad of soul 7 1 Waiting Woman 8 What has thou dreamed? 9 Ginevra 10 There is a tower of a far off wood 11 A roofless tower in a gloomy depth 12 Of rocks and ashy trees and dripping boughs 13 A place of pallor of a changeless mist 14 A tower that has known so soon decay 15 It seems the court of time and crownéd death played at chess 16 A place where time and death have gambled long 17 It might have been the toy of centuries 18 And firmer stood, for time hath worn it not 19 Forever in the tower whirls the wind 20 A place of everlasting wind and rain

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1 But all the wilderness around is calm 32 2 As though it were a nation charmed to stone 3 The fountains scarce my speak a honeyed 4 word 5 Unto the moon so wondrous still it is 6 Yet ever there the fiend of the storm 7 Sits on the walls and blows his trumpet shrill 8 No sooner do mine eyelids close in sleep 9 Than my soul seems to stand within those walls 10 Close by a slab of stone a nameless tomb 11 A hideous shape with plumes of azure flame 12 My soul and it talk there upon the tomb 13 A ghost by ghost upon the lonly tomb 14 Waiting Woman 15 Of what? 16 Ginevra 17 Of many things they hold converse – 18 Is Sebald coming, for I’m sick of heart? 19 If ev If ever from the dream I do not wake

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1 cross thus my hand – place thus the crucifix 33 2 To keep me safe from that fell spright 3 - thus - thus 4 3 Waiting Woman 5 It is the gnome her father slew of old 6 It cursed the king and died, and it was laid 7 Beneath the ground in some old tower far 8 Within the center of the mountain land 9 (Enter Sebald) 10 Ginevra 11 O Sebald I am very sick of soul and sense 12 (she takes his hand) 13 I wish for respite from a world of thoughts 14 From the abyss thy harp can hurry dreams 15 I’d know if it can also banish them 16 Did ever mortal and a spirit wed? 17 If it is so strike on thy harp and sing 18 Sebald 19 I have abundant pleasure to obey

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1 (Sings) 34 2 Dwelt the princess great Yeagan 3 Fairest child of Sweden old 4 By the sad and sounding Baltic 5 In her towers calm and cold

6 In summers winsome flood time 7 When Citron flowers blow 8 By the sad and sounding Baltic 9 The princely suitors go

10 They left their southern vineyards 11 They left their joyous castles 12 The hunting in the forest 13 The bowing of their vassals

14 Be merry O ye blithe green wood 15 The horns will blow again 16 Another race of hunters slay o’er 17 The heron in her fen

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1 The princess great Yeagen waning 35 2 Is waining day and night 3 She loves a fay of Ocean 4 Whose eyes are blue and bright 5 ____

6 To the towers calm and cold 7 Where the palid vapours twine 8 Came all the jovial suitors 9 In their argosies of pine

10 O blithly feast the suitors 11 The chieftains young and bold 12 But the vapours twine for ever 13 O’er the towers calm and cold 14 ____

15 To a serving man she cried 16 “Slay these suitors ‘er the sun” 17 Behold when all were sleeping 18 Was the deed she ordered done

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1 In lands of dreaming summer 36 2 There’s mourning in the castles 3 There’s wailing in the green wood 4 There’s arming ‘mong the vassals 5 + + + + 6 As they did died arose the day 7 Like to a laughing child 8 And placed his rosey finger 9 Upon the vapours wild 10 ____

11 At morning stood Yeagan 12 Mid sea mews screaming flight 13 And from off her lovesome face 14 Tossed her hair of skyey light

15 Where bands of waves a-many 16 All kiss their snowy hands 17 While they glance, in whirling dance 18 Over the chilly sands

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1 Then cried the fair Yeagan 37 2 “O waves that ever beat 3 In a merry band, o’er the chilly sand 4 On wildly wingéd feet”

5 “Fly waves and tell your master 6 Ive quenched each human part 7 And driven pitieous pity 8 From out my foolish heart”

9 “O tell him I am worthy 10 To be a mermans bride” 11 Then plunged the fair Yeagan 12 Beneath the glossy tide

13 And never more hath mortal man 14 Seen Yeagán the fair 15 A well a day, the waves at play 16 All toss their sil’v’ry hair

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1 Around the sunny wavelets 38 2 All wing wring their snowy hands 3 As they glance, in whirling dance 4 Over the chilly sands

5 So wrought the great Yeagan 6 Fairest child of Sweden old 7 By the sad and sounding Baltic 8 By her towers calm and cold 9 Ginevra 10 A 11 Do her eyes see not in the lonly night 12 Accusing shadows of the men she slew 13 Sebald 14 Ever the soul of a spirit hath peace e 15 She proudly rules in the hart of the sea ^ 16 On a pearly throne in the flickering light 17 Hearing the mermen harp, The mermaids sing 18 There down in the land where the waves are not 19 She hears with a smile of the worlds above

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1 As she dreamily leans with half shut eyes 39 2 Back on her throne in the emerald light 3 Full many the ships that have reached their ports 4 Or sunk down under the laughter of waves 5 Have sunk for the joy of her royal whim 6 The tritons all shepherd for her their flocks 7 While the wand’rin 8 While her vassals stout are the wand’ring waves 9 At beck of her hand is the boundless sea 10 For bards and those they love the world was made 11 If these live on what matter who may die 12 What count doth make a sparrow eagle slayn 13 Ginevra 14 Can feeble mortals then do such a deed 15 By driving human pity from their hearts 16 And grow as phantoms of the sea or air 17 Sebald 18 Yes some such legend is among the bards 19 Ginevra 20 Father I thank thee for thy song t’was good

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1 She was a maid o’er masterfull but queen’ly 40 2 go one of you I’d have my palfry brought [?] 3 (no one stirs) 4 I tell you I will have my palfry brought 5 go go – I ride this afternoon 6 Waiting Woman 7 ride forth! (exit) 8 Sebald 9 But you are pale and ill – ride not to day 10 Ginevra 11 Old man, unto thy laboratory, old man. 12 Work mong thy simples and thy roots and ores e 13 Go round the measure of thy lonly song ^ 14 Go measure out the widsom of the world 15 Old man ma 16 Say that is hollow and this still has truth 17 But canst thou see pale sorrow’s pilgrim ways? 18 Who wanders through the world on noiseless feet No 19 No thou art to old for that old man ^

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1 Waiting Woman 41 2 Who’l count see the wandrings of a young 3 girls wits? 4 Who’s young enough for that? 5 Ginevra 6 Your saucy, girl 7 Waiting Woman 8 Go not alone for heaven’s love 9 Sebald 10 You still 11 are sick – 12 Ginevra 13 At thy peril follow me 14 Sebald (Exit) 15 Waiting Woman (crying) 16 O sir she’s been of late as one possesed 17 You may not count on her a minutes space 18 So gentle one 19 Sebald 20 I’d follow but I do not dare

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1 Scene 3 42 2 A part of the forest on the out skirts 3 a winding beaten in the fore 4 ground on which Moscon an 5 Colin meet from opposite sides 6 Moscon 7 Whither my shepherd paragon so fast 8 Colin 9 To meet my lovl lovely Amoret this eve 10 She leaves the palace this most joyous day 11 Moscon 12 I thought before the shouting first of may 13 I thought before the first of shouting may 14 Ye two fell out and she with angry heart 15 Whent with the princess as her waiting maid 16 So why this sudden change? 17 Colin 18 Why many thing 19 You see she hungered for the idle woods 20 And for the merry glades and bleating fields

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1 and then a tree close by her window grew 43 2 cut like a bird a shape unnatural 3 And it was heavy on her country heart, 4 and so we’d make our quarrel up she said 5 And she would be a shepherdess once more – 6 At dusk I meet her in the castle yard 7 Where from the lions stony mouth there flows 8 The water mong the brazen drinking cups 9 Farewell ti’s ‘tis fully time I start 10 Moscon 11 Farewell 12 Colin 13 (Aside) I’ll never tell him of the poisoned cup 14 That did not prove so poisonous – now for 15 The f lion fountain and for Amoret 16 (Exit) 17 Moscon 18 O Alice, Alice, Alice, poor blind maid 19 I must in every glad thy pensive face 20 Like some poor piteous thing by magic raised

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1 From its long unremembered forest tomb 44 2 (Exit)

3 ______4 Scene 4 5 Another part of the pine forest 6 Alice giving herbs medicinal Herbs m 7 to a copany of charcoal burners, ^ 8 peasants, shepherds Etc. Ginevra standing 9 in the back ground 10 1 Shepherd 11 My Mary begs for some the same as last 12 1 Charcoal burner and arm 13 Last eve my youngest burnt his hand ^ 14 Ginevra (aside) 15 She has sad vacant eyes, yes she is blind 16 I had so heard but had not thought it true 17 I thought some peerless beauty it had been 18 What has this pale blind peasant drawn his love 19 Away from me whom men call very fair 20 1 Charcoal burner 21 When I was out a seeing to the wood

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[notebook 3, front cover]

NOTEBOOK 3

Vol 3

W. CARSON 51, GRAFTON ST. CORNER OF STEPHENS GREEN DUBLIN BOOKSELLER & STATIONER3

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3 Stamped seal; ‘Vol 3’ is handwritten above, left of seal on inside cover. 1 The child fell 1 2 Voice from the crowd 3 Peace man let the lady pass 4 Your talk has shut your eyes long John 5 Ginevra (coming forward as 6 they make way for her) 7 Peasant 8 Alice (starting slightly) 9 Your lady-ship, what may I do for you? 10 I know not whom you are for I am blind 11 Ginevra 12 You grow pale 13 Alice 14 Do I blanch? It is not so 15 What may I do for you? 16 Ginevra 17 Have you sure salves 18 To be a rest for heated brains? 19 Alice 20 Yes these

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1 Ginevra 2 2 And cordials for slighted hearts? 3 Alice 4 Yes this, 5 Ginevra (leaning close to her) 6 And what for jalouyy? jealousy 7 Alice 8 Wait thou till last 9 (Ginevra goes to a distance the peasants 10 respectively making way for her) 11 Charcoal burner 12 And as I was a saying then she fell 13 And burnt her arm and I need salves for that 14 Alice 15 Take this and if thou needest more go then 16 And ask my foster father where it grows 17 And bruise it thus betwean the stones, as thus 18 1 Charcoal burner 19 All blessing light upon your holy head

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1 2 Charcoal burner 3 2 I need some ointment for this arm of mine 3 That was sore squeezed among the charcoal logs 4 (holds out him arm) 5 Alice 6 Take this and when ti’s gone come ask for more 7 From my old foster father and he’ll find 8 The plant that is the mother of the salve 9 2 Charcoal burner 10 May Mary keep the ever in her ken 11 A Shepherd 12 What I had last for my sick Susans done 13 Alice 14 Take this and how to make it for they self seen 15 You know for you have me make it oft ^ 16 My father’ll gladly find for you the herb 17 Shepherd 18 But will you not make me some more your self 19 Alice 20 While I’am here I’ll gladly give to all

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1 and be no miser of what skill I have 4 2 Shepherd 3 May you live long in light of all men’s love 4 Alice 5 Now Mary art thou here I’d speak to thee? 6 Mary 7 I am 8 Alice 9 You know I think what I would say 10 Go not with that tall fellow as you do 11 Sit neath the rusted gold of thy thatched cot 12 eel 13 And mind the spinning of thy wheel not him 14 Mary 15 Your hard on me 16 A Woman in the crowd 17 Don’t you forget, that’s all – 18 A Shepherd 19 Mary Mary’s 20 The last

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1 Alice 5 2 Farewell 3 Peasents all 4 All blessing on your head 5 (they go) 6 Alice 7 Draw near I am prepared your lady ship 8 Ginevra (coming forward) 9 Is there a salve for jealousiy jealousy 10 Alice 11 There’s none 12 Ginevra 13 There’s none, thou sayest so 14 Methinks there is, 15 Not ‘mong thy herbs – 16 These peasants what were they? 17 Alice 18 Poor folk I serve and who in turn love me 19 Ginevra 20 And on the morrow will you serve again?

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1 Alice 6 2 I cannot tell your grace 3 Ginevra 4 I think not so 5 There is no salve for jealousy you said 6 Alice 7 In land nor air nor water is no salve 8 Ginevra (seizing her arm) 9 Art thou afraid to die? art thou afraid? 10 Alice 11 Not more than others be and less than some 12 (Enter three grey shades) 13 Grey ones o sad presagers whence come ye? 14 Ginevra 15 What do you see with those blind eyes of thine 16 That mine though straining cannot see 17 1 Shade 18 Who stands by the white rose bush 19 Pale as a burnt out star 20 Where quivering, quivering, quivering

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1 The white rose blossoms are? 7 2 2 Shade 3 Draw close to me sisters twain 4 Hourly, dayly doth she fade 5 A burning heat in her brain 6 The lonly royal maid 7 3 Shade 8 Be mute, Be mute and mark her well 9 Soon shall the gnome have peace 10 For the star and the mist have met 11 Soon shall his trouble cease 12 Alice 13 Do you hear what they sang; they sang of thee 14 Ginevra 15 I see the mists of evening huddle close 16 On ever soundless feet, and nothing more hear 17 Alice 18 As woman may be I am firm now strike 19 I cannot struggle I am blind and weak

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1 (Ginevra kills her the three grey shades 8 2 creep away with their fingers to their 3 lips) 4 Ginevra 5 To horse and home 6 (Exit)

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1 Act 4 9 2 Scene 1 – 3 The pine wood - Time night – 4 Enter a procession of peasents with 5 torches , At the head of the procession 6 a coffin is carried followed by Moscon 7 and the old peasant foster father to 8 Alice – The coffin is lowered 9 into a grave in the foreground – 10 The old peasent throws himself on 11 the ground with signs of great grief 12 The peasents fill up the grave while 13 Moscon is speaking thus _____ 14 The whole wide human world has sunk from me 15 There lowered slowly in the mother earth 16 Naught now is left save shadows and the trees 17 That stand the sentries of my cavern dim 18 There I’ll return and spend my days, and brood 19 Upon my heart where death has taken toll, 20 Among the kindly shadows of my cave

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have 1 Where I had lived the hater of all men 10 2 Till came the day you found me strangely sick 3 And then old man I from thy daughter learnt 4 That man is but a poor weak thing not ill 5 At heart, as my worn father taught of old 6 Among the lengthening shadows ‘fore our cave 7 He said that I and all the world were evil 8 That only silence and the woods were good 9 And then he died and for ten years I strove 10 To live without the kindly talk of men 11 Till silence grew well nigh articulate e 12 And all the grey ghosts seemed my brether^ n 13 But many times with weary heart I came 14 And stood before the towers of the king 15 And wondered what it was to live with men 16 Such had I done that self same day gone by 17 Some weeks (how much I’ve lived since then, who knows) 18 The day you found me in the forest sick 19 And then old man I saw your foster child 20 No peasants child as these have thought but one

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1 Who should have been the first in all the land 11 2 She was the elder daughter of King Ralph 3 He hid her here to keep the royal crown 4 For her he loves more than his false old life 5 Ginevra – yes true heir of Ralph the king 6 The false old grey beard with the restless eyes used you 7 Fate used you ill, man worse than fate ^ 8 Yes cast thou down the earth upon her head 9 Mans like a flame within the lonly night 10 A lingring ghost among the sepluchres 11 His soul is like the sea that hungreth on – 12 Consuming till he dies, is their then peace 13 Hast thou then peace – cast down the earth 14 cast down 15 So fell the sacred manna long ago 16 (Turns to the old man) 17 Old man made great by right of tears, see’st thou 18 This is old man a heavy sword and long 19 Its edge is blunt with rust of many years 20 The stalagmites have whitened it some what

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1 In ten years slumber neath a caves recess 12 2 It was my fathers in the days gone by 3 Old sword thou hast made Widows in thy time avenge 4 I think thou canst avenge a murder yet 5 They’re feasting in the castle there Ill go 6 I’ve traced the murderers tracks to there 7 And my two handed sword will justice do 8 Crouch down before my feet crouch down O grief 9 I’ll seek my cave and then thou may’st have sway 10 But ill not seek it yet and thou shall’t crouch 11 The linnet flies before the carrion crow 12 The crow has scented offal a far off 13 He seeks the towers of the king – Farewell – 14 Several Voices 15 revenge – we follow to Ralphs Towers 16 too 17 my lord we two have griefs – 18 - revenge - 19 Moscon 20 I go alone 21 O be he lord or peasent he shall die

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1 They feast and drink I two shall feast and drink 13 2 My sword shall be a solemn feaster there 3 (looking up at the sky) 4 How dark and what a gathering of cloud 5 Me thinks the lord of winds goes shepherding 6 Within the fold and pastures of the sky jubelie 7 Or do the high gods shout in jubily 8 In answer to the joy within our hearts? 9 For we have had a merry meeting here 10 Friends O friends she was a lordly lady 11 All 12 She was, she was, - 13 Moscon 14 A most holy lady 15 Farewell – Hence Hence I tell you hence 1 (They fly from him and out he 16 snatches a torch from one of 17 them – of all the peasents the 18 old man only remains he still un 19 kneels unnoticed and unnoticing ^

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1 By the grave) 14 2 Moscon 3 Poor peasant folk live on among th your woods 4 Good day and bad and seasons in their time 5 And such poor things will make you soon forget 6 Forget I may not so alone I go 7 Ill find him ‘mong the feasters in the hall 8 And he shall die, and then his friends will come 9 And ring me round – tis well tis very well 10 Their swords shall school me in forgetfullness 11 For thee O holy maid no more I’ll seek 12 The blesséd herbs upon the mountaind tops 13 No more, I’ll seek, no more, no more, no more. 14 Hence grief – farewell most holy grave – Hence grief 15 I now am nothing but a sheathless sword (Exit)

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1 Scene 2 15 i 2 A corrador in the castle night 3 time enter Ginevra with a lamp 4 she opens a laticed window the storm 5 is heard among the trees without – 6 Ginevra (as she gazes into the night) 7 O how it blows – the moon above the trees h 8 Sends fitful gastly gleams o’er garden paths ^ 9 Where whirling dance the yellow autumn leaves 10 See these just then one past me flitting by 11 Our souls are as these wind borne leaves all fates 12 For good or ’ill, how can we change our way choose 13 That leaf how can it change its course how ban above 14 If it is blown to dance upon the grass 15 Around the marble satyrs neath the moon ageless 16 Or borne away among the pine afar ^ 17 And like the leaf we go no man knows where

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1 When this our span of gathering regrets 16 2 And dwindling hopes has faded to the end 3 (she closes the casement – a moth 4 flies against the lamp) 5 Keep back o dusky farer through the night fliest

6 Thou flyest – straight upon the flame, keep back 7 Thus have I dashed thee down and saved thy life 8 For good and ill we are all fate’s as thou o 9 We may not chose our course she molds us all ^ can’st 10 Blown moth how cast thou guess if ti’s or no. 11 The enviolable law that makes thee yearn night 12 To all bright things, shall lead thee through the nigh ^ 13 Not to some campion clump but to the flame 14 So all of us are led by fate untill 15 She crushes us as I crush thee, thus, thus, 16 Now dead and little heap of scattered down 17 And crumpled plumes – when she has left as thus 18 Do our souls also die? Who knows, who knows – 19 The sleepless stars on their eternal thrones 20 Are still on gaze and have no answering word

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sea 1 The clamerous has no prophetic voice ^ 17 2 The little flame the soul what can it tell 3 But airy fabelings that one by one 4 Have shown their hollowness and sunk away 5 (Enter a messenger) 6 Your pleasure sir what is your pleasure sir 7 I am much occupied with mine own thoughts 8 Messenger 9 The king would see your grace 10 Ginevra (turning round) You’re 11 Your from the king 12 You are Sir Tristam his dear friend my friend 13 The best known faces often slip away 14 From my dull brain of late r 15 What stired just then ^ 16 A muffled figure passed by yonder door 17 With in the shade – no dead man walks not yet 18 Messenger 19 One of your women passed the door I think

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1 Ginevra 18 2 You know 3 At times, I mutter wandering words good sir 4 Farewell kind friend. I’ll 5 Forget me I will see the king anon 6 (Exit Messenger) 7 Ginevra 8 Old honest Tristram he is happy now 9 Because I smiled on him – Why cannot I 10 Live also as he lives for little things 11 Be happy in the sunlight and and the shade 12 Not ask such things I know not what from life 13 In all content, or be as other maids 14 With Whom is folly the rich comforter 15 Of all most innocent and thoughtless hearts – 16 Not ask such things, I know not what, from life 17 But O the quenchless flame around my heart 18 (Enter a page) 19 Page 20 I’ve found you know I have been looking long 21 The king has sent for you -.

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1 Ginevra 19 2 You know 3 My pretty page 4 Do you love stories of the ghosts and fays? 5 Methinks thou dost 6 Page 7 At morn, not now 8 Ginevra 9 Tell me 10 Hast ever heard of there being seen at times 11 Unto the blind strange things unseen by all 12 That have sound eyes – 13 Come nearer and Ill place 14 This summers almoner this purple rose 15 Upon thy cloak nay let me now 16 Page 17 No, no. 18 T’is womanish 19 Ginevra 20 Nay see I’ve placed it thus

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1 (she holds him back at arms length) 20 pretty 2 Oh my fair page, my page, my page ^ 3 You are so like another child I knew 4 Another child I loved 5 Page 6 And did he live 7 far 8 In that old tower with the garden old 9 You talk so much about? 10 Ginevra 11 He lived my child 12 In that old tower 13 Page 14 You’re so queer to night 15 You often laugh I know not why and then 16 Your eyes are bright and you are very pale 17 The king is not like you his eyes are dull 18 I looked in them to night and he is sad 19 And asks continually for you, he says 20 He’s had a strange foreboding all day long 21 Of coming ill – He’d have you sing to him

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1 To give him peace – 21 2 Ginevra 3 I’ll come he shall have rest 4 When men are old like him, then life and death 5 go hand in hand and all their path around 6 At that strange meeting is ’oer trod with dreams 7 Page 8 He shall have peace 9 Page 10 Why do you grow so strange 11 You sometimes give a queer short laugh 12 When once your hawk passed all the hawks in flight 13 I heard you laugh though you but seldom laugh 14 And I was glad but now I grow afraid 15 Why is it so 16 Ginevra 17 Unto the king lead on 18 (Exeunt)

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1 Scene 3 22 2 A room in the castle 3 Ralph in bed – Ginevra 4 sitting by him spendidly dressed 5 The page near by – 6 King Ralph 7 Send for the wine I fain would sleep 8 Ginevra 9 My page 10 Close by a wreathed pillar in the hall 11 Hence page 12 and seek the cup it standeth ready filled 13 Close by a wreathed pillar in the hall 14 (Exit page) 15 King Ralph 16 Sing child thy aery song keeps off ill dreams 17 Almost as well as wine that giveth sleep 18 Unhaunted by the dreams that haunt my days 19 Ginevra 20 I cannot sing I am in haste to night

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1 King Ralph 23 2 Come near and let me hold thy hand fair child 3 Through all these weeks by lingering illness bowed 4 I have been sad yet most of all to day – 5 Go first raise up yon light – There is a thing 6 A phantom of my youth that troubles me 7 To sadden without cause and see strange sights 8 Is that a sign of coming death? 9 Ginevra Perhaps 10 Perhaps 11 King Ralph 12 It is a graveless thing – With sudden stab 13 I slew a man for his fair leman’s sake 14 His bones are still among the tangled grass 15 Picked by the eagles white as mountain snow 16 All save the skull, that his fair leman found 17 His bones are still among the tangled grass 18 Picked by 19 And bore it, long with her more mad than winds 20 At times the peasants on their way at eve

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1 Have heard a sound of singing in the air 24 2 Then seen the maiden in some lonly dell 3 Oft sitting on a thyme empurpled bank 4 With that white thing before her on the grass 5 Sing it in loving tones soft catches of court song 6 And when she saw them come she’d nod to them 7 And laughing loud would toss the thing on high 8 And catch it once again and laughing call 9 Wild words and they would fly from her in fear 10 At last she died, her grave is mong the hills 11 When I am sick her phantoms haunts me still 12 Though why I know not for in younger days 13 Orphans and widows I have made and yet 14 Their ghosts have haunted not when dead – The light 15 In yonder corner where the curtain hangs 16 She tossed the skull by eagles picked of yore 17 I saw the glimmer of the lipless teeth 18 Ginevra 19 Peace, peace old brains are fancyfull fanciful

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1 Ralph 25 2 All day she has been standing here 3 Will you 4 King Ralph 5 All day 6 she has been standing here – will you not sing 7 Ginevra 8 I cannot sing I am in haste to night 9 King Ralph 10 Give me your hand, it is a fevered hand 11 Hast thou not ghosts that haunt thee child 12 Ginevra 13 Nay none 14 King Ralph 15 Thou will’t wilt have yet nay never fear thou 16 wilt 17 Thou are thy fathers child – 18 (Enter page) 19 Ginevra 20 Here is the wine 21 (taking cup to page aside)

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1 Go tell my ladies I will meet them soon 26 2 Within the pillared alcove! fore the hall 3 And tell let them robe as though for festival 4 (Exit page) 5 King Ralph 6 Bacchus 7 My favourite cup the stem a Baccus young? 8 Ginevra 9 It is 10 King Ralph 11 You mixed the wine your self? 12 Ginevra 13 I have – 14 I have – it is a sleep enticing draft 15 King Ralph 16 T’is well – my ministers have all been here 17 Before you came – they do my bidding well 18 Yet from them I would take nor wine nor food 19 They’d poison it – They say my deeds are ill you’re 20 And look you child remember when your queen 21 They lie. They lie there is no sin in life

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1 To him that does there is not sin en though 2 It seemeth to the watchers from afar 3 Save only failure that is sin indeed – 4 Stand back and let me see thee child – thus, thus 5 You are magnificently robed to night 6 Beyond your wont ay scarlet suits thee best 7 You are as my queen was long years ago 8 When she and I were crowned long years ago 9 You’ll make a noble queen 10 Ginevra 11 Here is the cup 12 King Ralph (taking it) 13 What is the wine so dark? 14 Ginevra 15 The hangings blue 16 Are glassed in it 17 (The king drinks – Ginevra leens 18 against a pillar watching him) 19 King Ralph 20 Why are your eyes so bright – The lamp the thing

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bears 1 That bares the skull see it draws near 27 2 But now that I have drunk I fear it not 3 But strange whence came that icey chill 4 Ginevra (aside) 5 Behold he pales o mighty herb be thanked 6 Though herb I gathered when the dewy morn 7 Had twined his roses o’er the highest peaks 8 And ageless snows, upon the mountain side 9 I gathered thee at morn o herb be thanked 10 King Ralph eyes 11 Why mutter’est to thy self with glittering ^ 12 What means this sudden chill, this sudden pain 13 Ginevra (aside) 14 Behold the white steals o’er his wrinkled face 15 King Ralph 16 It was a poisoned cup – y why you, why you 17 Daughter I trusted you – 18 Ginevra (aside 19 He weaker grows (draws a crucifix 20 from her the folds of her dress)

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1 This I have brought – ‘Tis meet his eyes should look 28 2 Last on this thing – (aloud) Behold thy Lord 3 King Ralph 4 Why you?, Why you? 5 Daughter I trusted you 6 Ginevra (aside) 7 His eyes are dim 8 They wander aimlessly what matter though 9 ’Twas made for souls of sorrow and of sin 10 We twain we sin but sorrow not 11 (lets the crucifix fall) 12 His eyes 13 Grow dim as grew the dying peasants eyes 14 King Ralph 15 What did’st thou come in robes of festival witch 16 Thus decked to watch me die thou scarlet ? ^ 17 You think to reign and rule when I my 18 servile lords 19 When I am lying dead? behold this blade 20 I have for such as thee

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1 (he starts up seizing a dagger that 29 2 lies near by) 3 You tremble not? 4 Ginevra (aside) 5 Upon his face death casts a pallid cloud 6 Death sits upon his heart and eyes enthroned 7 King Ralph (trying to strike 8 her with the dagger) 9 You seem leagues off from me in this death mist 10 I touched thee then, no no the dark dark 11 guards thee 12 Too dark Too weak 13 Ginevra (aside) 14 The death draws very near 15 Now back upon his bed he gasps for breath 16 His finngers fingers clutch the braided coverlet 17 The looséd soul will soon be wandering now 18 King Ralph 19 Before I die I have a thing to say 20 You stand too far draw nearer to my side

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1 Ginevra (aside) 30 2 At death whence goes the soul to wander far 3 Without a body exiled in the world, 4 Untill it fades mayhap as once before 5 The body faded in the days of life 6 King Ralph pray 7 Draw near I prey thee I will harm the not 8 Mild looks and cadent words are old men’s part 9 And meek forgiveness – for their hands are weak 10 Ginevra (aside) if 11 But there is another world than this ^ 12 Why then saught it this world and flesh at all 13 For here it ever gathers gnawing grief 14 And plentiousness of evil and small joy 15 King Ralph (The dagger still 16 in his hand) 17 Draw near, fear not, I fain would tell of vaults 18 Where hidden treasure lies; for dead mens souls 19 Who leave hoards unrevealed can never rest 20 Ginevra (aside)

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1 How tedious and long this dying is 31 2 King Ralph 3 Hast thou drawn near touch me thus I may know 4 Where thou dost stand for death has dimmed mine 5 eyes ey eyes 6 (he raises the daggar and it slips from 7 his fingers) 8 Too weak no hope for vengence now, too weak 9 Ginevra (aside) ici 10 The final icecles are round his heart ^ 11 King Ralph 12 What once again thou phantom with the skull 13 Ask thou for him? The wood among the hills 14 The valleys edge, among the dew, white bones 15 Ginevra (dies) 16 His arms fall back he gasps and quivering 17 Dies subtle 18 With subtle death he battled long, most long, ^ 19 O what a tedious herald was this death, 20 And what a struggle for a little thing.

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1 If other worlds there be beside this globe 32 2 They held some chance of good or it were strange 3 If none why then tis neither good nor ill, 4 So what a fangeless fate to fight against – 5 Hence for the crown – 6 Sintram great spirit have I vanquished yet 7 From my sad heart all lingering human ties 8 That were a heavy ban twixt thee and me?, 9 Sintram reveal thy self to me this night 10 Does this suffice?, think not I shrink oh no, 11 All sinks thou only art 12 Farewell dead king 13 In plotting firm and mighty in thy rage 14 Thou were’t, but yet the past did troble trouble 15 thee 16 Not so with me, I think not on the dead 17 I am a flame consuming ever on 18 Afar before me lies hopes garden fresh 19 Behind the unremembered bun burnt out 20 past

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1 Thus have I done and go consuming on 33 2 (Exit)

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1 Act V 34

2 Scene – a banquet hall 3 in the castle – sword and shields 4 hanging from the [ ? ] pillars 5 - Torches burning during the 6 progress of the scene day dawns 7 and the red glare through the long 8 gothic windows dims the torches – 9 knights are sitting feasting at the 10 long tables before them flagons of wine 11 Sebald is sitting by his 12 harp – 13 1 knight 14 How the wind howls above the castle top 15 Blow shriek, yell, crack your voice old Boreas health

16 You cannot dim the wine – a heath – a health 17 2 knight 18 What health is left to drink I’d like to know,? 19 We drank them all twice o’er two hours since

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1 1 knight 35 2 I’ve thought of one, I love a mad brained health 3 2 knight 4 Mad or sane we’ve drunk them all 5 1 knight 6 No 7 Hast thou forgot the gnome the old king slew? 8 2 knight 9 That health were treason bloody and high treason 10 1 knight 11 He’s housed among the worms these many years 12 Bah – what is treason in a feasts december? 13 And fa toast 14 Ill swear there is no other tost to drink ^ 15 Sebald 16 Drink not 17 2 knight 18 Peace old man or thou’lt also drink 19 Sebald 20 I go –

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1 3 knight 36 2 thou shall’t not go, we need thy harp – 3 (He stops him) 4 [?] what a storm 5 1 knight 6 Drown it in a storm of wine 7 (they all stand up) 8 2 knight 9 The gnome 10 (They all drink) 11 3 knight 12 There’s no one to respond 13 4 knight 14 Heaven forbid 15 I thought that gust had blown the windows in strange 16 Tis wondrous that all the sky is clear ^ pine 17 Save one great cloud thats brooding o’er the pine ^ 18 A mass that never stirs but sends forth wind 19 And bitter drouth has been these many days 20 The thirsty air has drunk the moat up dry

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1 5 knight 37 2 I but half like that toast though he be dead 3 When moats are dry the spirits cross at will 4 1 knight 5 Who’d think we’d feasted unto morning light an 6 We grow so meloncholic and long jawed ^ 7 Come Sebald we must have a song, come man 8 Sings 9 Sebald (sings to his harp) 10 The singers harp is broken 11 The dying word is spoken 12 The lamp of the sage is dead 13 The light of the roses head….

14 3 knight 15 That’s of the breaking of an old mans heart 16 Not that, that sin song you have been singing oft 17 These last three days – come strike thy harp old man 18 man Is 19 [ ? ] it unmindfull of its other tunes

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1 Sebald (sings to his harp) 38 2 Sad thou art o summer 3 Since the strange new comer 4 The mew thing grief 5 Has stolen away thy singing 6 And thither instead comes winging 7 Sorrow the thief 8 2 knight 9 stop stop we need a new and blither tune 10 That is a sad mad maidens dying dirge 11 (the doors at the end of the hall open 12 Enter Ginevra attended) 13 4 knight 14 The princess: The princess comes 15 Ginevra 16 My subjects hear, for such you are henceforth 17 The king that has been dying many days 18 Is dead – not wishing to disturb the land 19 And having will to grasp the scepter firm 20 My nobles being masterfull and strong

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was 1 I said not he dying now he’s dead 39 ^ 2 O other dames would weep and say thex hearts their hearts 3 Beneath the winds of sorrow me nestled close 4 But I of royal race shall do not so 5 I must be firm to rule for I am young 6 See thus I crown myself the queen, your queen, 7 (She places the crown on her head 8 and passes down the hall to 9 raised Dais at the end) 10 Several Voice 11 The kind dead – dead so suddenly 12 a knight (aside) 13 The princess casts no shadow on the ground 14 Ginevra (aside) 15 ‘Twas well to gather my chief nobles thus 16 I think I’ll make these fiery vykings bend 17 (taking a cup of wine from a page) 18 The princess drinks to her assembled peers

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1 (The majority of the knights shout) 40 2 long live Ginevra Ralphs great child 3 (Ginevra walks down the hall 4 to where a small knot of knights 5 did not shout) 6 Ginevra 7 Hear me duke Conrad you who’se strength 8 Is Ebremar the mountain town – and you 9 My lord who’s power upon the sea has root 10 Have you forgot the battle of the sands – 11 And by the rood the lord of Ringle guard 12 Had best recall how high his fathers head 13 Was staked and pinacled in days gone by trait’rous 14 And you the rest of these false tratrous knaves 15 The scumb of kingdoms and the curse of kings o 16 The leprosy of nations and the scurge – ^ 17 Envenomed addars that beset the path 18 Enwait for foo foolish mercy’s wandering feet 19 (violent knocking 20 The blast of a horn is heard followed

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1 By violent knocking) 41 2 Ho ope the doors some knight has tarried late i queen 3 And ye proud lords, proud trator hear your queen ^ ^ 4 (Moscon enters throwing down 5 his torch) 6 Ginevra 7 The end is very near 8 1 knight 9 O look ye knights 10 Who’s this tall fellow with the shining eyes 11 2 knight 12 And see you watx what a mighty sword he bares 13 He’s great enough to come from wodens hall 14 That sword is rusted like a thing from graves 15 3 knight 16 A great pale man all clad in rusted mail 17 Like some drowned Viking by the winds swept home 18 1 knight 19 Speak not of graves and dead men on a night 20 When outer air’s aquake with shrieking storm

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1 Several knights (to Moscon 42 2 drawing their swords) 3 There is our queen hold not thy head so high 4 Moscon 5 Silence ye spaniels to a Sovran’s feet 6 Ginevra (aside) 7 O greatest Sintram I have done the thing 8 The last of all the spells is o’er and done 9 By loss of pity I have grown they peer 10 I now am nothing but a crownéd strength 11 1 waiting woman 12 From her dim eyes the banquet hall has sunk 13 3 waiting woman 14 Upon the long dead past her eyes are set 15 1 waiting woman 16 The madness comes upon the queen again 17 A memory of flame has drowned near things 18 2 waiting Woman 19 From her dim sight the banquet hall 20 has sunk

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1 3 Waiting Woman 43 2 Upon the long dead past her eyes are set 3 Moscon 4 O radiant maiden, royal maiden here 5 Within the forest was a murder done 6 Alice the daughter of the false king Ralph 7 The blind and gentle daughter of the king buried 8 Have I seen murdered on this very night 9 Ginevra (aside) 10 Was that pale peasent girl my sister then 11 I thought I heard she died long years ago me 12 The phantom tries but my heart is dead ^ 13 He shall have proof that I am pityless 14 One dies – The world is but a jesters staff 15 I’ve learnt to shake it 16 (aloud) Thou’ll’t have the man 17 (the sunlight has been gradually 18 growing redder and brighter) 19 Sebald (raises his harp)

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1 a knight 44 2 Be still old man the stranger and the queen 3 [?are] in mysterious talk 4 Ginevra 5 Sebald Silence 6 (The knights force him to sit down) 7 Moscon (kneels) 8 O let me find the man and let my hand 9 Slay him – see see the golden clue I have 10 I found it shining in the tangled grass 11 (holds up a dagger) 12 Ginevra (laughs) 13 The handle is a serpent of pure gold 14 Twin opals with a many changing hue 15 Stand for the eyes that nigh have living light 16 In their deep orbits of the sealed gold 17 Moscon dagger’s 18 Declare the owner of the daggers name 19 Ginevra see 20 The mouth is wide agape and fiercely set

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1 31 47 2 th it was only that 3 they might do god’s 4 “Service as his thralls” 5 Then replied Satan 6 that their aim 7 must be “from good 8 still to bring forth evil” and that 9 they must again 10 attempt to conquer 11 heaven for “to be weak 12 is miserable” m 13 Then sumoned all ^ 14 his angels and they 15 arose like a

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1 flight of locusts on 48 2 and lit like a 3 hill that was 4 of sollid fire 5 and then Satan 6 consoled them 7 and told them of 8 the Prophesy that 9 was in heaven of 10 the creation of a 11 new world where 12 they could war 13 Suddenly the pallace 14 of Satan Pandimion 15 arose – And concel 16 is heald in it

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[notebook 4 front cover]

NOTEBOOK 4

W. CARSON 51, GRAFTON ST. CORNER OF STEPHENS GREEN DUBLIN BOOKSELLER & STATIONER4

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4 Stamped seal on inside cover. Vol 4

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1 The mouth 2 2 With shining fangs that are of diamonds all 3 A Waiting woman 4 The queen’s own dagger 5 Ginevra 6 And zigzag’s the blade 7 With grapes and grape leaves near the guard engraved 8 You might, such cunning had the hand that wrought 9 Nigh feel in those small leaves wild summer throb 10 It hath no fellow in my kingdom wide 11 Moscon 12 The name?, The name? 13 Ginevra 14 Come see how fair it is 15 (She takes the dagger from his hand) 16 T’is small and light, most beautifully small ou 17 It was was the joy of Spains first armorer – ^ 18 My waiting women heard ye e’er a song 19 From out the chronicles of old time love 20 Of how a maiden when she killed her heart

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1 had found strange love? 3 2 (she tosses the dagger away) 3 (to Moscon) 4 Of him who owns yon thing 5 Ill place his name upon the poor fair face 6 Of spotless ivory that likes but ill 7 So great a stain 8 (writes on her tablets) 9 [aside] I’ve written Conrads name 10 But no not that I’ll write another name 11 There’s that black bearded lord of Ringle guard 12 His grey eyes tell of danger and revolt 13 I hate the man (writes again on the tablets 14 and gives them to Moscon) 15 There is the name ask where he sits and strike 16 Strike thou nor let him speak 17 yet stop no so 18 See give me back the tablets for I’m wrong 19 It is another owns the blade – The tablets 20 (she takes them and rubs out the name)

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1 and is about to write again, But 4 2 throws them down as if she had changed 3 her mind) 4 But rise and think not on the these foolish things 5 Moscon (kneeling) 6 The name? The name? 7 Ginevra 8 It is the face I know 9 The mighty form I know. The voice I know 10 Thou had a song that ran on somewhat thus 11 [sings] 12 If you’d ask the youngest angel bated 13 She would say with batted breath ^ 14 Fore the door of Mary’s garden 15 Are the spirits love and death 16 Come and we will devide those comrades sad 17 Old death shall spread his wings and fly 18 We’ll love beneath loves shining eyes – Come thou 19 Though in a laughing humour saith the song 20 To mock the world a titan fashioned man

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1 a fragile thing of the all shifting wave 5 2 of those twin rivers death and love, and though 3 He has the pilgrim sorrow for his friend 4 To win away from folly’s balm the heart 5 Grown amerous of all unhappy things – 6 Yet joy will seek our unrepentent hearts 7 Death’s wave shall touch us not – we’ll send instead 8 From our thrones foot a river wide and strong 9 Of endless majesty – all shall be ours 10 Behold my wizard love, the whole wild world 11 Chimes endlessly unto the tune of love 12 The shoutings of the rivers are his name 13 And voices of the forest manyfold 14 Moscon 15 Have done with this fantastic foolery 16 Who own the dagger who? 17 Ginevra (writing) 18 there is the name 19 At last I’am thy peer behold –

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1 (Moscon reaches for the tablets – But 6 them 2 before he reaches them she drops leaving 3 them to hang at her gurdle; for at 4 the far end of the hall In all 5 things like his brother save that he the phantom hunter 6 is of superhuman size Sintram enters – ^ 7 redder and redder the blood red sunlight 8 pours around him 9 Sebald raises his harp and sings 10 as if inspired gazing at the shade – 11 the feasters drop their cups and fall 12 dead silently one by one as the shade 13 passes them 14 Ginevra eyes are eagerly fixed 15 on it it stands before her Sebald 16 Meanwhile has been singin thus ^ 17 his dirge 18 O Barons draw your cloaks around ye for we die 19 Take up your staffs, and on your feet the sandals bind 20 Because the long and lonely journey has drawn nigh

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1 Frail peace among the nations of grey dreams to find 7 2 Who tred unknowing joy and sorrow by the sea 3 Of dim forgetfulness – no mercy for thy youth 4 Think thou to beg, or for some lady waiting thee 5 Or beg no mercy for a life of blameless tr truth 6 While I am singing, growing cold about ye die 7 The dead men’s souls among the living feasters stand 8 And ever too and fro the mute things wondring ply swell 9 And fill there numbers, with the falling of the sand ^ 10 From tourney, and the dance, and from the tilting ring, 11 As in the morn the rifts of cloud, we pass away – 12 When we are gone as joyous shall the crickets sing, 13 And then as now shall day still follow after day – flaming 14 Our doom upon the alter of a soul o’er fraught ^ 15 By love that knew no pity, life no tie that knew no tie, 16 Cruel without measure, has a maiden wraught, 17 The inviolable doom that comes, and we must die – 18 Turn round if ye have strength, and gaze upon [?] her there, 19 Unto the alter of her love we’re sacrificed 20 Take up in hand your staffs, and meetly set your hair

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1 For now the fatal final journey doth betide 8 2 Unto us all for this most cruel heartless maid – 3 Yet most I morne and weep because beneath the tide 4 Of death, her burning heart grown very cold shall fade 5 O hear ye thus before the world began our doom 6 The calm eyed sisters wrought before their fatal loom 7 (the harp falls from his hand 8 he dies) 9 (the shade stands close to where Ginevra 10 and Moscon are, they alone now living -) 11 Moscon 12 This is no harping time, I shall kneel here, 13 T’ill I have venegence for thy sister’s death – 14 Ginevra 15 I was mistaken in thy face fair sir 16 Another’s it is strange’ly like 17 (she makes a few steps towards Sintram) 18 Great peace 19 Has come unto the waters of my soul 20 Draw near O Sintram thou hast tarried long

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1 among the strangers my my companion lost 9 2 These many years - Now have I weath wealth of joy – 3 The rosy morning with her fingers light 4 O Sintram fondles ever oer they hair 5 And each small ringlet is a burning light 6 Moscon 7 Call not, for thou hast oft conjealed men say 8 The wandering air to phantoms feace and strange 9 Call not aloud upon that dreaded man thing 10 But grant grant to me the death of him I seek – is 11 By god, I move not till his name I said 12 I tell you that thy holy sisters dead – 13 Still on your face that strange bewildering smile, 14 Are you bewitched or is it mockery? 15 A wind worn osprey on his towered rock 16 Would feel more sorrow for a fellow slayn – 17 False fair and canqu cankered rose of womanhood 18 Hear me thy sisters dead, thy sisters dead 19 Hear me thy sister murdered lies

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1 Ginevra 10 2 I think fair sir 3 You spoke just now of some one slayn far 4 Look round upon the feast see all are dead 5 Look round, ten, twenty, forty lying there 6 Small count they make among the mornings dead 7 Less count among the ghost at pe Peters door 8 You start and take with puzzled fingers up 9 The old mans harp – see touch his hand he’s dead 10 Swan like he died – You have a puzzled look 11 Th Mayhap my very words – my face and form – 12 The paleness of the feasters all around 13 Seem somewhat strange to you – not so to me – 14 To me my heart alone is passing strange, 15 And that calm spirt spirit standing yon 16 He is my lover 17 Moscon 18 thou most deadly phantom 19 O wherefore hast thou come my great twin brother 20 No mortal man may draw night thee and live

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[blank page] 1 Ginevra (to Moscon) 11 2 I think there is a question in your face 3 Or did you speak, I heard not for my thoughts 4 Move softly in the golden chains of love 5 Fair sir you asked about one dead I think 6 (The phantom makes a few steps forward) 7 Moscon 8 Fearful phantom! 9 (staggers and falls dead) 10 Ginevra for Why asked you of one o 11 Why ask about one dead? 12 What count makes one among so many dead? 13 See they all lie like sheafs of smitten corn 14 Ripe corn, green corn, all gathered up and mown – 15 I must collect my wits they’re wandering ones 16 When we are happy we do moralize, 17 And I could sing to ease my heart of joy 18 I’ll sing, but no I must reply to thee 19 You asked me why they all are dead fair sir,

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1 O yes I’ll tell you why they all are dead 12 2 My nobles they dead – because – because – 3 Stay, yes I do remember they were slayn 4 (’T’will be a brave funeral ) of a hurt 5 Got unware of cupids arow arrows light – 6 But was it so – stop – I’ll think – I’ll think – and here 7 I’ll sit me in this chair and think O yes 8 (she sits down) 9 O yes 10 My memory is now quite clear again – 11 Some loved the dryads of the antique oaks 12 And some the guiding souls of wandering air 13 Hard strove they to unmake their human hearts 14 In there distain of this sad earthly clay - 15 O surely he’s a mischief making child 16 The young Olympian with his soundless bow 17 - O ’twill be a brave funeral! – Thy hand 18 (turning to the dead body of Moscon) 19 What no, and when you are so seldem here 20 I know you now we’ve often talked of you

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[blank page] 1 You are the brother of my playmate here 13 2 Why do you live so far away from us? 3 Moscon, a third we oft do need in play old 4 They stay say I am a strange of fashioned child 5 And love to act as grown up princes do 6 I am resolved to take they hand – But why 7 It is not time to sleep – How dark it grows. 8 My child lover, O Sintram come thou near 9 How gently yonder star blinks down at us 10 So saith the good old preist shines gods own eye 11 To keep the inocent and pure in ken 12 Do not yet leave me Sintram are you cold 13 You alway were a colder child than eye I 14 Is not the garden in the evening sweet 15 See yon red sun has scarcely yet gone home 16 To where he sleeps behind the poplar row 17 He smileth yonder on his door st step still 18 Stop here my little lover yet a bit 19 For till the sun has gone no dew may fall 20 See you the robin watching with bright eyes

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1 Does he not seem to matter go not yet 14 2 But no ti’s ’tis very cold come we will go, 3 Moscons asleep, we will togeather go 4 (she dies and the d phantom fades)

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NOTEBOOK 5

W. CARSON 51, GRAFTON ST. CORNER OF STEPHENS GREEN DUBLIN BOOKSELLER & STATIONER5

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5 Stamped seal on inside cover.

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1 Love and Death 2 a Tragedy

3 Sintram – a Spirit 4 Moscon – His mortal brother 5 Ralph – Father of Ginevra 6 Sebald – a harper 7 Colin – a shepherd 8 a page 9 Shepherds Peasents and Nobles

10 Ginevra – a princess 11 Amoret } waiting women 12 Margaret } 13 Alice – a blind peasent 14 Peasent Women Waiting Women

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1 Act 1 3 2 Scene 1

3 A cave, a forest of pine behind 4 A fire dimly burning – 5 The setting tinting all thing 6 Enter Moson a dead boar on his shoulder 7 he throws the boar down speaks 8 and thus while he is putting branches ^ 9 on the fire 10 I Moscon am a sad and savage man 11 Here dwell I, neath an ivy cin ceintured rock 12 Among eternal twilights on the sod 13 Where lies the pines’ serene and awful shade 14 About their head play beams of winged sun – 15 So proud in their unnumbred centuries 16 and in the firmness of their sunless stems gathering 17 Like titans sleeping - in their pride apart changeless 18 Stand my great brethern the pines ^ sooth 19 From their still shadows sucking balm to still ill 20 a sleepless called poor humanity ^ 21 that I have caught – I am not lonly here – Oh no 22 When in the morn horizons burn and when 23 begins the dance and pean of the day

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1 has broken the speed of my restless feet 2 as a sudden sorrow speedy and light 3 When I find no help in this great bow mortal 4 That sendeth its arrow rapid and sure 5 And fleet as the footfall of wind – This bow 6 Is not methink a toy of old mens hands

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1 I see the company of timid ghosts 4 2 At evening also when the sun is gone its its 3 each with his finger on mouth goes by ^ ^ 4 poor wild unutterable mysteries 5 Md My dear companions and my only friends 6 For no word I have addressed to living man 7 Since those dim days of many years ago 8 My father died as I shall die when time 9 has broken the speed of my restless feet 10 as a sudden sorrow speedy and light 11 When the speed of my arrows is broken 12 Who’s flash is as flashes of fountains are – 13 Then some wild beast shall slay me ‘mong the pine 14 Then shall my great twin brother shake mayhap 15 Some hoary mountains head and hurl the the snow 16 To mightily entomb my scattered bones 17 And all the winds shall sing a funeral song 18 The fountains white throated their dirges sing – 19 Stay over medittation saps my soul 20 Not thus shall I fulfil my fathers task 21 The task of hating all men till I die 22 At And leave my bones on some far hill – 23 But see how splendidly the day lives dead

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1 And night the burning blood is bloo is lapping up 5 2 Look there a mighty shadow standing is 3 Tis he whom long ago the goblins stil stole 4 My great twin brother gazing there 5 His face is sad with strange prophetic grief 6 He is gone I saw him for a minute moment stand 7 And with him all the holy hair of day 8 has sunk into the silver night 9 And stealthy winds creep forth to dance 10 and revel on the froth of lakes 11 And wind their horns among the pine 12 (exit into cave) 13 (The red light of evening fades away slowly 14 Till the wood is dark save for the light pine 15 of the wood fir before the cave) (enter three muffled shades 16 who stand warming their hands by 17 the fire) 18 1 Shade 19 What sight see you 20 2 Shade 21 I see a bright star shining clear 22 A mist like a mans hand drawing near

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1 31 Shade 6 2 and you 3 3 Shade 4 I see a maiden sitting alone 5 by the alien hearth of an alien home 6 And look ye, there [?] blood on the root fearful 7 The pine trees born a dreadful fruit 8 2 Shade red 9 Lap the blood from the grey pine trunk 10 No ‘t as into the future sunk 11 3 Shade 12 Of him within 13 1 Shade 14 draw near 15 (the other two gather round) 16 2 Shade 17 peace peace the lion man comes forth 18 (Moscon comes from his cave and makes the 19 sign of the cross) 20 (The three grey shades creep away with their 21 fingers on their mouths) 22 Moscon 23 There gone disturbers of my peace … … 24 (exit into cave)

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1 Act 2 7 2 Scene 1 3 a room in the castle 4 enter Ginevra with Amoret and 5 Margaret and other waiting women 6 Amoret 7 She day is done – throw now your wreaths aside 8 Alas that flowers in a may day wreath 9 Should wane and hang so sickly on their stems 10 So may day’s almost gone again – its eve 11 Is like a dying rose who’s crimson face 12 and curving petals are usurped with black 13 As on the rose I pluck from out my hair plundered su[?]cked [ ? ]

14 This pitious citizen of piga pilaged spring ^ 15 Is like (s 16 Ginevra 17 What morilize moralize upon may day 18 Why Amoret girl Amoret your sad 19 And bowed with thought as though thy sumers were 20 So many winters doubled thrice – or sad 21 As though the vilain rain had spoilt may day 22 Margart 23 Methinks, there was a cloud on her may day 24 A gallant whom I wot of was not there

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1 They’ve fallen out 8 2 Ginevra 3 Loves quaruls are as light 4 As is the wilful froth of the salt sea 5 Ay slight lighter far 6 Amoret 7 Oh no I am sore afraid 8 Their deep as in the sea There whole world deep – 9 Margaret 10 But yours is not Ill sware 11 I mind it well you quarelled thus before And 12 Why he’s but a landless man at best ^ 13 Amoret 14 But then 15 Ginevra 16 How high would you look Margeret 17 a waiting woman 18 Allthough she be the youngest of us all 19 She’d have an emperor or king at least 20 Margeret 21 A knight crusader wx with a cross of red 22 Who’d been unto the holy land and faught 23 The sca sarisens and Turks whom Mary hates

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[blank page] 1 and did a dragon slay and had its skin when was 9 2 and if he were away I’d keep his hall 3 And rule his vassals with a swirveless hand 4 When ‘er I passed they’d bow meek heads and say 5 Behold the warior lady of our lord 6 My very shadow’d be a thing to fear 7 Waiting woman 8 I told you how exalted ‘bove us all she is 9 Her hopes would humble humble prester John 10 Ginevra 11 O yes 12 All those that are of low degree look high 13 And those who are set high would fain be low 14 Now I am weary of embattled walls 15 Of dancing and of courtiers bowing low 16 And all the things that lose for us ourselves 17 The very walls are weary some to me 18 There wandering alone I seek for peace 19 And for the lone nymph quitness – and gloom 20 The evil brother of poor peace I find – 21 For I am opressed with gazing on the pine 22 There heads the very spring doth never change 23 This might be Hades where the spring is not

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[blank page] 1 And if I lift mine eyes and seek afar 10 2 Beyond the land of pine the loud sea is 3 That is no cordiel for restless hearts 4 Waiting woman 5 Thou Yes you’re by far to fond of solitude 6 I would not be alone for all the world 7 Ginevra 8 And I would like to live afar from here 9 Not great nor poor but rich enough for peace 10 In that bright land, where old storks bring the young 11 Away from winter winds and winter woes 12 And I would have for lord some peaceful man 13 Who loved the people and their ways and works 14 An he would build for me a home of brick 15 A laughter peopled castle and a place 16 That was not cold and grey and grim as this 17 But where the green vine hangs its pointed leaves 18 And I would have there peacocks four and grounds 19 Where grass grows long and bountiful and free root 20 Around the stem of many am mossy tree ripe 21 That in small autumn like small lams of red 22 Would on the tangled grass bright apples shed 23 And there a sun dial I would have all round 24 With climbing of the grey dark green melons bound

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1 An old world garden where the birdly throng 2 Dose almost out of memory of song a 3 An old world garden with pools soft sheen neath ^ 4 Where mong long weeds the sleeping pike are seen 5 An old world garden where with folded wing 6 summer 7 All day long the hours sit and sing 8 And old world garden where the calm dreams nod 9 dream nodding to dream o’er the shady sod 10 An old world garden where the pulse and beat 11 Alone is heard of summers rushing feet away 12 there far from courts I’d live and die ^ batch friendly 13 But I have found a nest of dizzy dreams (enter page) 14 And hear a herald from the under world To drag us thither ward a [ ? ] speak sir page Who’ll eyes 15 Who’d To drag us from their dizz nest down 16 Speak for yourself, your sin is great sir page

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Page 11 1 Enter page 2 The famous harper Seabald has returned 3 He sings unto the people in the hall 4 Of Rowland and his friend dead Olivér 5 And of the trumpet blast of Fontevrault 6 And how the bright blades sprang at Fontevault 7 And Charlemagnes bitter wroth at Fontevrault 8 He sings of Rowlands unce uncle whom god curse 9 And of 10 Ginevra 11 Be stil lead on we’ll follow thee 12 As fast as though the Heathen were behind 13 (exeunt)

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[blank page] 1 Scene 2 12 2 a ruined building 3 a tomb in the foreground on which 4 a gnome sits cross legged 5 Gnome 6 I like to read my epetaph 7 And stretch my bones here once a day 8 Feeling warm evening winds 9 Stir in my thin grey hair 10 It’s a moldy place below 11 Under the deep cut epetaph 12 See here their they’ve cut it chiseled thus 13 (reads) 14 “A gnome once terror of this land 15 Lies here god rest his sinful soul” 16 Ay rest his soul – ay rest his soul 17 His soul shall rest and never fear 18 When of thy house king Ralph 19 A man shall fall for every blow 20 Of steel upon the stone 21 Ten years ago in felling me 22 Thy sword in slaying me raised up gossips 23 My playmates and my friends

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[blank page] 1 The spirits of the pine gainst thee 13 2 And all the people of thy house 3 The stranger at thy door shall die 4 The dogs before thy gate 5 Ya thy whole house will fall 6 The goat upon thy walls will climb 7 The laughing fay’s will dance 8 Weaving circles green 9 Mong bones that are shining 10 With pallor of snow 11 Sunk in the dewy grass 12 Ya bones as white as snow – 13 The little agile fays 14 With chatter and dancing 15 the pinions will feather 16 Of hours a fleating 17 Each stone moss encumboared 18 In the moony quiet 19 Of the f roofless towers 20 Will harbour a fairy 21 As a moonflake of light 22 O time will be speeding 23 In halls that are royal

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1 As never it speedeth 14 2 In days of the striving 3 Of planer of tourney 4 Of Masque Makers labour 5 O the dead walls will ring 6 With laughter and singing 7 From lips that are redder 8 Than redest ash berries 9 And nodding their bright heads 10 The wild footed fairy 11 The courtier fairys will bow 12 To Mab the illustrious queen 13 Proudest and fairest of fairys 14 Oo then will be feasting king Ralph 15 Not Ralph for thee, not Ralph for thine 16 But the bones are for thee King Ralph 17  x x x x 18 Then shall my ghost have peace 19 Then shall my soul have rest 20 [starts up standing] 21 The clock has struck 22 The times at hand 23 The years have flown

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1 My peace is near 15 2 (blows his horn) 3 Come gather from the quarter four 4 To the sound of the Masters horn 5 Come all unholy things 6 Hence and wing the song of Moscon 7 With slumbering memories 8 Voice it as his brother 9 The song soul of the pine 10 “Tis done” “Tis done” “Tis done” 11 I hear the far off lips 12 Of the fountains fearce reply 13 I hear the little trumpets sound 14 Of an hundred thousand streamlets 1 5 “Tis done,” Tis done”, Tis done”. 16 An ‘er the new moon is old 17 The final fate will come 18 My time of grace has passed away 19 Once more I seek the tomb 20 Mong the worms and dark earth beatles 21 I lie till you are dead 22 O Ralph and your people 23 Hark the far off echo

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1 (Scene 2) 16 2 The forest 3 sound of hunters horn ringing throug 4 the wood enter 5 Ginevra leading Amoret 6 followed by a page carry holding 7 a falcon 8 Ginevra 9 O Amoret my simple shepherdess 10 My queen of Arcady – you soon will find 11 Court life more merry than the shepherd ways 12 And harpers song than woodland pipes more sweet 13 Youl be the fairest of my waiting maids 14 ho page come take her hand tis thy new friend 15 I sound her by a streemlets shady marge 16 Cooling her feet in the idle water 17 No friend she has she says save one, that one 18 Pays not her love in meet return of love 19 So she ahs come with us, ho page, sir page 20 Among those pale exotics of the court

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plant 1 my waiting maids – this wild wood rose we’ll plant ^ 2 So come my waif of Arcady 3 Exeunt

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1 Scene 3 - 17 rose bush in the foreground 2 a another part of the forest ^ 3 Enter Colin (with a cup) 4 So with the princess she has gon from me 5 O cruel Amoret, but here Ill die 6 And lay me down and clasp about the stem 7 O this rose the we two togeather set 8 And made our vows above in days gon by 9 And hear Ill hang my olin pipes grown dumb 10 poor quills thx who never played of aught 11 but love 12 Fit dying place for thee, fit place for me 13 (he hang the pipes on the rose bush) 14 Grow on o tree till thou dost stand 15 Above they fellows monument of love 16 And neath the leaves sad shepherds shall deplore 17 There love and cry against the world. but nay 18 I had forgot your but a rose bush small 19 A poplar had been best a poplar tall 20 Lie there my pipes dumb thing of grief and love

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1 Ill drink the poison from my horned cup 18 2 Ill bind it round with roses, thus, thus, thus. 3 The roses that she loved for it is meet 4 I leave with loving cup [?stirrup] cup the world 5 This travelers loging house this fickle world 6 Ill drink a tost to thee o rose bush sad 7 That you may grow for ever higher, higher, 8 But nay a polar poplar had been best. farewel 9 Farewel, o cruel Amoret, farewell at 10 No more had harvest feast Ill play my pipe ^ 11 Unto a jolly she 12 (raises the cup) 13 (Enter Sebald) 14 Sebald 15 Ho peasent I have lost my way, and would 16 Fain reach the castle of the king fore night 17 You shall have pay if you can show the road 18 Colin (aside) 19 Tis some great lord (alo

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1 (aloud) 19 2 Ill do you’r bidding sir 3 (turning to the bush) 4 back 5 farewel, good cup, good tree I’ll soon be back 6 An 7 Rose tree that should have been a poplar tall 8 An odd few minutes more of this proud world 9 My cup cup I’ll soon be back 10 Sebald 11 Leed on. Leed on. 12 (exeunt)

13 Enter Moscon 14 Moscon 15 Who is that maid so wondrous pale who lives 16 With that old charcoal burner on the land 17 Where forest ends and tree less plain begins 18 All day the thrushes hold a high depate debate 19 Beneath the shaddy copse around her hut

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shining n 1 as though they wrangled of her shinig hair 20 ^ ^ 2 and yet my father called all women false Indee 3 Indeed I fear it must be so for he 4 was wise most wise, most wonderfuly wise. 5 Whats this 6 (take up the cup) 7 Why this is wine yes surely wine 8 I never tasted wine of any sort 9 I heard it was more red than this – I’ll drink 10 Unto thy face most beautiful unknown 11 They heart I know most be most false 12 (drinks) 13 Tis sour 14 I think but ill of human taste – Ill go 15 A sigh about her face and sigh still more 16 And sit me in the shade of some great tree 17 And sigh her face and sigh still more 18 About the faithless heart it hides 19 (exit)

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1 Scene 4 21 2 Another part of the forest 3 Moscon in a swoon in the 4 foreground Enter Colin with 5 three peasants 6 1 peasent 7 Yon by the tree stump is the man we seek 8 2 peasent 9 A great pale man with tangled hair 10 1 Peasent 11 Lift him 12 3 Peasent 13 Hes not yet dead 14 Colin 15 He soon will be 16 1 Peasent 17 Look you 18 How huge the bow he had four fingers thick 19 (They hand the bow about) 20 2 peasent 21 En you long John would scarcely bend 22 that bow

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1 So s 2 3 Peasent 3 No be so sure of that 4 1 Peasent well 5 But you’l not try I know you ^

6 3 peasent 7 He was a man of might 8 He would have been the kind of charcoal men 9 Colin 10 He would have been a peerless shepherd swain 11 But who alas does know his right employ 12 O keep the measure of his life in tune 13 3 peasent 14 Look to his pockets for they are fair game 15 2 peasent 16 If he be dead they it pays his buriel 17 3 peasent 18 And if he lives the finders must be paid 19 1 peasant 20 stay nor yet do so he is a knight

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1 He’s people are not far may hap we’d best 22 2 Look out for ransom it were better pay 3 And some good league more safe, in case they came 4 2 peasent 5 Best see what he has got and leave him here 6 3 peasent 7 He’s mine I found him first 8 1 peasent 9 Come take him up 10 And bare him to by hut my foster child 11 will cure him of his hurt what’er it be 12 She that is blind, will cure him of his hurt 13 What ‘er it be for she is skilled in herbs 14 3 peasent 15 And then the whole reward is thine 16 You think 17 1 peasent 18 and I’ve the right 19 3 peasent 20 [?] no for he is mine

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1 I found him first 2 2 peasent 3 No fool he’s mine 4 3 peasent 5 Me fool 6 1 peasent 7 Yes fool 8 3 peasent 9 Take that 10 (hits him) 11 Colin (parting them) 12 What spoil there is you shall devide 13 There take him up unto thy hut old man 14 2 peasent 15 And if he die his cloak is mine 16 3 peasent 17 We’l share 18 Lets bar him off 19 1 peasent 20 What shall I tell my child has 21 has hurted him 22 Colin 23 a sunstrok – I – I – think 24 (exeunexit carrying Moscon)

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1 of some great lonely rock 23 2 Sendeth back the sound triumphant 3 Of my horn to me returning 4 (sinks into the tomb) 5 ______

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1 Scene 4 24 2 An antique room gothic windows 3 Seabald the harper musing by his harp 4 (Enter Ginevra) 5 Sebald 6 You have been wandering long. what ails thee child 7 So pale 8 Ginevra 9 Things many and fantastical 10 Seabald 11 Come now sit down and tell me of these things 12 Ginevra 13 O Seabald Seabald things that bode much ill 14 Seabald 15 Sit by me here and tell me of these things 16 Sit by me here- you oft in play have called 17 Me Soloman and consillor in chief 18 Speak now for seven ages have I seen 19 And scarce a thing befalls I have not seen 20 And I have seen the ghosts that haunt the pine 21 And long poured over books of fantacies 22 So till the sign and do not ring thy hands 23 Sit down and be at peace 24 (she sits) Thats well, Thats well

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1 Ginevra 25 2 O t’is the number three affrights me so 3 Seabald 4 Speak in a [?suiner] _mood 5 Ginevra 6 I wondered forth 7 Before the pinewood down the path I went 8 The path when of the honey be has sung 9 But all was gloomy with a brooding mist 10 And sudden from the glooms deep heart there came 11 Three shrieks from air above or earth beneath 12 On well spring of my soul who knows who knows 13 Seabald 14 Forth from the limbo of nightmares they came 15 Ginevra 16 And troubled then I fled in sore dismay 17 Seabald 18 Pale child full many are the Phantoms of the wood 19 Who often cry aloud their unknown woe 20 Have peace 21 Ginevra 22 And thrice I heard the raven croak 23 And in boo broad daylight on his soundless wings

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1 Three times he answered to that wizard bird 26 2 I head him three times hoot, that wizard bird 3 The raven flapping on a shrivelled oak 4 When in the cattle cinctured by the moat I’ stood then And turn 5 I turned and spied beyond the misty moat 6 Three shades with finger on their mouth spead by 7 Seabald 8 They dare not cross the water by their law 9 Ginevra 10 from the walls 11 Thrice the death watch smote 12 Seabald 13 Why blanch you so 14 Ginevra 15 I fear the striking of the tower clock 16 Soon will it voice the fateful number three 17 T’is true yet how I know, I do not know 18 (she stands up) 19 Seabald 20 sit down, Sit down, and for a time compose 21 Thy poor souls ruffled plumes 22 Ginevra 23 It about to strike

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1 I know for all my heart is bound with ice 27 2 (The clock strikes slowly) 3 (a song from without) was voice 4 O sweet was the hand of morning ^ 5 in on wood and valley and mountain 6 Sweeter than singing of harper 7 The song of the white liped fountain

8 Songs of the water I hear not 9 Spells of the morning are broken 10 By love that bringeth of death 11 a sign and a warning and token

Mine arrows were fatal and sure 12 My feet were speady and swift light 13 As the feet of a sudden sorrow 14 When after a joyful day 15 Cometh a woeful to morrow

16 Mine arrows were fatal and fast 17 As the arrows of young Apollo 18 To the snows that ling’ring bide 19 On mountain and woody hollow

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1 But brokens the speed of my feet 2 The speed of mine arrows is broken 3 By lor

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1 But brokens the speed of my feet 28 2 The speed of mine arrows is broken 3 By love that bringeth of death 4 a warning a sign and a token

5 Sebald 6 The fatal hour only brings a song 7 What thing is this to make you grow so pale 8 (he looks out of the window) 9 The pine (aside) 10 The mighty hunter spirit of the pine 11 I know his pale illuminated face 12 He’s gone again 13 Ginevra 14 More than a song I hear 15 The soft sweet sound of fleeting water 16 Neath walls where the swallows hang their pendent nests 17 By the home where I lived in my childhood 18 And two fair children by each others side careless around 19 The arms of one cast oer the neck ^

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1 Ginevra 29 2 back 3 His arms fall he gasps and quivering dies [?lone] 4 With subtle death he struggled most long ^ 5 O what a tedious herald was this death 6 and what a struggle for a little thing 7 If other worlds there be beside this globe 8 They hold some chance of good or it were strange 9 If none why then tis neither good nor ill 10 So what a fangeless fate to fight against 11 Hence for the crown 12 Sintrum great spirit have I banished yet 13 From [ ? ] sad heart all lingring human ties 14 That were a heavy ban [?tween] thee and me 15 Sintrum reveal thy self to me this night 16 Does this sufice – Think not I [?shriek] o no 17 All sink, thou only art 18 Farewell dead king 19 In plotting firm and might in thy rage 20 Thou wort. But yet the past did trouble thee 21 Not so with me I think not on the dead 22 I am a flame consume ever one 23 A far before me lies hopes garden fresh 24 Behind the unrembered [?burnt] out past

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1 H[ ? ] [ ? ] the huts for the Hen sped 2 I [ ? ] most notes as you shy away 3 I came to meet you 4 And so have met you hear [?than] I am able 5 I know all turn of this path how sped

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1 Ralph 2 What man I unevenged die 3 No hope for vengence home o mayest [ ? ] 4 find life the reward of all heavy things – 5 May all that follow the or give the hellp 6 die one by one about the with strange death 7 When all art gone [ ? ] tho victorious 8 At some triumphant moment of thy life 9 die one by one about the with strange death 10 When all are gone then wilt with them – 11 No kin shall miss a marble tomb for thee 12 Or sooth they sore with [ ? ] or with [?pry] 13 This dear men love beneth t[ ? ] w[ ? ] h[ ? ] 14 they cant (o life stay yes a little while that I may curse) 15 Uncared thy was [ ? ] walls shall melt [ ? ] 16 and leave no record of the name to men 6 17 Unless some hunter on a winter night 18 Shall scare his children with they name and say 19 Such is a curses cronicle These thy 20 Shall time bring forth yet how I do not know 21 The f[ ? ] with the skill [?the] f[ ? ] mad 22 Ask [?thee] for him he is away [?the] t[ ? ] g[ ? ]

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6 Yeats has scribbled over this line and the five that follow. 1 among the dew se pulls [ ? ] down dow down 2 (he dies) 3 avenged avenge I see a vision rises 4 [a banquet] hall tall f[ ? ] in a [?band] thru 5 from out there finger fall the glit[ ? ] cup 6 O how the bond and [?rath on] the floor 7 [ ? ] in sp[ ? ] Look to the f[ ? ] [?low] 8 How pale the feast are a muffled form 9 red dawn – red upon his face – avenge avenged 10 [ ? ] [ ? ] 11 What once more hear [ ? ] [?carer] of bones

12 G 13 The final icicles are round his heart 14 King 15 The fantom with the skull the [?fantom] main 16 Ask you for him his d[ ? ] [ ? ] [ ? ] 17 Among [?the] dew among the [ ? ] 18 white b[ ? ]

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1 a soul of the 31 2 I cast my line in the nethermost deep – 3 sounding the land where the fishes are –

4 - The apocyliptic soul of sleep

5 out of the ship of Azolar 6 and and I heard the laughter of scaly things 7 and the gleem and the flash of scaly rings 8 I saught the ole in a roc marble mount 9 and often I sounded the rock to find 10 If hollowed it were of vanitys fount 11 And there I smote on the marble rind bound 12 smitten of late of late was the mountain ^ 13 and as did the see then aswered the ground 14 Far and near my hand takes measure 15 And out of the silver and gold come earth 16 And out of the dust comes plentious treasure 17 Diaphinous gleem of Edenic birth 18 Of late I smote on the mountain bound 19 And as did the sea then answered the ground

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1 [?anxious] 2 And tell to [ ? ] wives and [?] 3 curious friends 4 Quaint explanations of that wondrous 5 voice 6 And shudder as they think of 7 what is past.

8 Poor simple folk – yet how were 9 they to know 10 Mortal as they, whose [ ? ] voices 11 they had heard. 12 Yet how – can common tongues 13 strike terror dumb 14 Confusions worst confusion let it 15 rest 16 No explanation for the world is 17 mad. 18 All mad, a [ ? ] whirlpool of 19 benighted fools 20 And sanity is but degree of 21 folly

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1 And careless wild abandon when the 32 2 flames 3 Lap higher than their wont, and 4 shine more keen

5 Stillness – a pause – deep tremulous 6 and long 7 And then another shriek, that seemed 8 more dread 9 Because of that t’was heralded by 10 silence in,

11 Wild fancy filled the interval of sound 12 With forms weir, elfine, terrible that 13 chased 14 Each other oer the surface of the sea.

15 At last the fishermen all pale 16 and wan 17 Reach the much wished for harbour 18 and the shore

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1 A sound came floating, an unearthly sound 2 Over the waste of waters form afar 3 Shrill as the blast that trills mumbles in the pine – 4 At times when frighted watchdogs bay and howl drowsy 5 And sleepy citizens in vague alarm 6 Sh[ ? ]k on their bolts and bars, and turn 7 and sleep. 8 A weird wild sound that floated oer the sea. 9 A frighting fishermen far out from land 10 And made the pal helmsman’s hair stand 11 on his head. 12 With very fear, and made his shut 13 his eyes 14 All shuddering in dread of seeing aught 15 Beside the waters that gleamed dark 16 afar. 17 Shrill as the laughter of [?] unblesséd 18 souls 19 Mad in the madness of their utter loss

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1 (drops the crucifix on the bed) 33 2 Dull grow his eyes’ as grew the peasents eyes 3 Ralph 4 O wherfore was it thou. false poisoner die 5 (snatches a dagger form beneath 6 his pillow) dark 7 There’s scarcely light enough to strike. To week 8 To week. To week 9 (falls back) 10 Ginevra 11 The death is very near 12 No back upon his bed he gasps for breath 13 His fingers clutch the braided coverlet 14 The looséd soul will soon be wandring now 15 But stay whence goes the soul. to wander far 16 Without a body exiled in the world 17 Untill it fades may hap as once before 18 The body feuded in the days of life than this 19 But if there is an other world why then 20 Why then saught it this world and fear at all 21 For here it ever gathers gnawing grief

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1 And p[ ? ]ness of wit and small joy 2 Ralph 3 The fantom with the skull the fantom maid 4 no hope for venegence non 5 Darkness She pulls me down I die 6 c (dies) 7 Ginevra arms 7 8 His eyes fall back he gasps and dies at last 9 O what a tidious herald is this death 10 And what a struggle for a little thing 11 If other world there be Why good or ill 12 If other 13 Beside this glob 14 They hold some chance of of good 15 or it were strange 16 If none why then tis neither good nor ill 17 So what a fangeless fate to fight against 18 In words and looks thou wert dead king farewell dead of 19 O mighty king though wert a man whose [?strength] 20 Yet never didst thou learn this thing that tigers fearce 21 Have never in one narrow cave agreed

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7 Beginning with this line and continuing over the following nine lines, Yeats has crossed out the writing diagonally. 1 But one would compass how to reign alone 34 2 So wast with I and thee farewell dead king 3 plotting firm 4 In council strong and mighty in thy rage 5 But yet the p 6 Thou wert. But yet the past tho trouble thee 7 Not so with me I think not on the dead 8 I am a flame consuming ever on 9 A far before me lie hopes garden fresh 10 Behind the unremembered burnt out past 11 Thus have I done 12 (pointing to the dead king) 13 and go consuming on

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1 Scene 3 35 2 a room in the castle 3 (Enter Ginevra and waiting women) 4 Ginevra 5 How is the clock 6 1 waitin woman forth 7 The hour creeps on close on three 8 Ginevra 9 Last ever eve about this hour among the pine 10 I wandered by that shaddow peopled path 11 That leads I think unto a peasants house 12 Waitin Women 13 O who would live among the haunted pine 14 Ginevra 15 I saw a hunter resting on his bow 16 He seemed a stranger and I heard him sing 17 songs of the friendship of sorrow and love it 18 To ease his heart seemed ^ 19 2 Waiting women 20 O wonderful all 21 When hunters sing shall the trees be tongued 22 Ginevra 23 He was not of the common sort – heigh ho. 24 My heart has gone from me for that sweet voice

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1 and yet not it but memory 36 ^ 2 That it has roused I know not how indeed 3 about a child I knew full long ago 4 the hunters face or song I know not which 5 has oped the door and ’ta’en the seel from off 6 An old deserted chamber of my brain 7 And let embattled memories rush out 8 Is Sintrams name familiar to your ears 9 He was a boy a fairy plundered boy 10 Waiting woman 11 Her comes the holy churches enemy 12 [ ? ] Ginevra (Enter Seabald the 13 T’is Sebald see you not golden band ^ 14 He has he won it from a Southern bard 15 Down by the vine hung Margent of the Rhine 16 They fought with war of song The vanquished bard 17 Laid deadly hand upon himself for grief 18 Waiting Woman 19 We’l go we do not love that fearful man 20 (exeunt waitin women) 21 Ginevra though 22 How is it Sebald you who sing great songs ^ 23 And are a famous courtier and a sage

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women 1 All these my waiting fear ye so 37 ^ 2 You whom so many courts have haild most wise 3 Sebald 4 Most r radient princess wisdom is a plant 5 That never flowers in a gilded vase 6 But loves the rock, and wisdoms nure nurse old age 7 Has faded eyes few hairs and features stern 8 These are but paltry bubbles of the court 9 Thou hast with you 10 Ginevra 11 Come sit ye down ill sit 12 I’ve wished for some time past to question you 13 Can you recall the tale of Biorus sons 14 One whom I knew of old was Sintram called 15 His brother I forget his name they sayed 16 Was like him as is reed to reed in spring 17 As yet unblown on by the vagrent blast 18 For they were twins – 19 know 20 Speak I would their fate? 21 Sebald 22 When he was very young – The fairys stole 23 Young Sintram whom you knew – The other child 24 Whom they called Moscon with his father went 25 The outlawed earl unto another land

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1 Ginevra 38 2 T‘was Sintram that I heard 3 Sebald 4 What said you then 5 Beneath your breath 6 Ginevra 7 Why naught unless it be 8 I wondered if you ever were in love 9 Sebald 10 No child I hold the sorrows of one man his 11 And own brooding thoughts shall make him grey ^ 12 But if he take another to his house 13 Her sorrows shall be his beside his own 14 Ginevra 15 What of him the faireys stole 16 Sebald 17 Among the pine 18 He

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[blank page] 1 Tis said for never trace was going to them 39 2 Ginevra 3 Then truly it was fairy Sintrams voice 4 Sebald 5 What said you then? 6 Ginevra 7 Why naught unless it be 8 I wondered if you ever were in love 9 Sebald 10 No child I hold the sorrows of one one man 11 Shall make him grey and bend him low indeed 12 But if he take another two his house 13 Her sorrow shall be his beside his own 14 Ginevra 15 What of him the fairys stole? 16 Sebald 17 Among the pine 18 He rules the fleeting shaddows and he hath 19 His court in rising and in setting suns 20 His name is mighty by the rushy marge 21 And loud above the froth of haunted lakes 22 His father is the foe of all this house 23 If he stil live but most I fear the son

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1 There is an ancient prophesy by me 40 2 Uncharnelled from of old legend lore that saith 3 No mortal hand shall over-throw this house 4 But Sintram is no mortal and tis known 5 Naught living sees him nere and lives 6 But hark 7 Moscon (in the distance) sings 8 See the dancing waters 9 See the flashing waters 10 A cloven dancing jet 11 From the milk white marble 12 For ever foam and fret 13 Far Far in the frowsy meddow 14 When yellow safrons blow 15 The feet of summer dabble 16 In their wiling calm and slow 17 The bunks are worn for ever 18 By a people sadly gay 19 A Titan with loud laughter 20 Made of heir mingled spray 21 Go ask the springing flowers 22 And flowing air above 23 What are

24 They’d say the twin born waters 25 they’d answer death and love

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1 Baring withered flowers 41 2 Two lonly spirits wait 3 Baring withered flowers 4 Fore paradizes gate 5 They not pass the portal 6 Poor earth earth enkindled pair 7 Thou sad is many a ghost 8 To pass and leave them there at 9 Staring their flowers. ^ 10 That dull and faded are 11 If one rise beside thee 12 The other is not far

13 Go ask the youngest angel 14 She will say with bated breath 15 By the door of Mary garden 16 Are the spirits love and death

17 I was happy in the green wood 18 And careless of the morrow 19 Till by the sterling rivers 20 I saw the pilgrim sorrow 21 Beneath a shaddy cypris

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1 a future song upon a glory shon 2 a honeyed vine of some a[ ? ] [ ? ] 3 B[ ? ] b[ ? ] [ ? ] upon a gloom shou

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1 sitting on a mossy seet 42 2 I saw him in the water 3 Bath is acking feet 4 I took them from the water 5 I wept upon them there 6 The feet of pilgrim sorrow 7 And I wipt them with my hair 8 But if y 9 But if you’l come he’l vanish 10 And the sun will shine again 11 But if you’l com he’l vanish 12 And the woods will laugh again 13 Sebald 14 Song like the shriek of a dying bitern 15 The honeyed voice of some aerill thing 16 Caught in the clutches of amerous death 17 (Ginevra is going) 18 Why do you sigh and tremble at the song 19 Come back what sang? 20 Ginevra – When nearest sweep the pine 21 I’ve heard the song before a hunter sang 22 We have not spoken but I’m world in love 23 Sebald 24 child

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1 Ginevra 43 2 Nay not the man the voice I meant 3 Sebald 4 Though silence is the manna of the soul 5 Yet fear the pine they are a haunted race 6 At times a mornful flame will ripple past 7 Along the sorrel leaves from gloom to gloom. 8 A dwarf at times will leep along the ground 9 laugh

10 Will shriek and lag[?] and then is gone once more 11 At times a lonly glade will sudden ring 12 With horses hoofs and crash of shattered speers 13 As thou two knights had met in mid carrer 14 And then tis gone and naught was seen or changed 15 But silence seems to gather round more deep – 16 Or with them long beards nodding up and down 17 A [ ? ] troop of old men in white robes pass by 18 And many singing shades are there now 19 Such was the once who sang but know his song ^ 20 For not a mortal live in all thus wood 21 Naught then but its own fearful populace 22 The very charcoal burners who were made 23 To low for stroke of doom will venture not 24 Beyond the outer edge of scattered trees

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1 and you of all man kind should fear that land 44 2 For there there walks a withering curse that fell 3 On many a father of this gloomy race 4 Ginevra 5 (going over to Sebald) 6 I place my hair by thine and it is bright 7 But yours is old and thin and very white 8 (exit) 9 Sebald 10 T’is well for bards to brood on graves gon by 11 And on the graves to come and hear their voice 12 And ever gaze on silence grey eyes 13 Merry word and laughter is for children 14 Yet she is not as other children be 15 Some day she may inherit mine old harp 16 And it will gloat and ring with fearcer song 17 And feel the living touch passions fire 18 And flash new signing in the bardic quire

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1 Scene 4 45 2 a long corridor - gothic pillars 3 gothic pillars gothic widdows 4 stone sen 5 at the far end of the corridor 6 a high window thru which the pine 7 appears 8 - forest is seen lit up by the sunset 9 that grows more intense as the scene goes on 10 at the far end enter Ginevra 11 Ginevra 12 Why does this spirit song so trouble me 13 I’st memory of fading day or love? 14 (The foster child of mine unearthly pride) 15 For some fantastic thing of wandring air 16 Yes memory of faded days or love? 17 When in that ancient castle lied we twain 18 And saw the days pass by in carless peace 19 each bringing some new joy – [ ? ] those fair days 20 The hours like like a troop of maidens gay 21 Some crownd with roses and with lilys some 22 With streeming hair passed by in endless song 23 The swallows nestled on the ivyed walls 24 From woodlands sa came the murmurs many fold

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1 Now man the alien of the world has t’a’en 46 2 his pining and unrest from its calm years nest 3 and now within his banquet hall the swallows hang 4 The lonly heron sleep upon the wall 5 And joy and peace sit there carousing still 6 The ageless hours pass in with self same song 7 Thou banished is the lord of that old house then 8 Then why such storm in after memory ^ 9 Yet it is memory 10 (turns round an becomes excited) 11 a word a voice from out my soul has spoken 12 And all the earth is loud with one wild word 13 The little voice of the rivers cry 14 The voice of far wood lands cry I love 15 What is that glowing mist that taketh shape 16 deep in the gloom by yonder wreathed arch 17 I see two children sitting side by side 18 See one is crying the other speaks 19 peace soul harken the voice of the elder 20 Upon the other look not is they self 21 See how the bright hair glows around his face 22 His hand lies fair on yonder pillar curve hang

23 Just where the pomogranites f[ ? ] in stone

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1 Tho 47 2 The hand that rules above the forest now 3 his lips are moving peece he speaks he speaks 4 (she stands) 5 Owho O who may tast the honey of dedd flowers 6 Or hear again the bubbling voices of the past 7 I may not hear mine own loved Sintrams voice 8 These are the Phantoms of ten years ago 9 Tell me are ye living children tell me 10 (she advances to the pillar) 11 Ye vanish progeny of my poor brain 12 Nothing more – ye are but fiery memory 13 (turns round and becomes once more composed) 14 a thought a memory is like a lute 15 That hangs upon the arra in the hall 16 Mong shields and armour and the hunting horns 17 A lute that hath not spoken many years 18 Till found by chance a stranger touch the strings 19 Uncaring and unknowing who’s it was 20 And all the listners hear its sweet complaint 21 So is a thought. when once aroused by chance 22 To its o’er mastoring self it bows all down 23 And does usurp the fiery might of love

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1 So am I made to sop sport of memory 48 2 How shining streems the holy hair of day 3 Till all nights growing deep it has illumed 4 (she turns and paces the other way 5 and becomes once more excited) 6 Why is it when I turn myself around 7 And face the country of the haunted pine 8 My thoughts are with a burning signet stam 9 stamped – 10 O holy mary look upon thy child 11 See what is standing twixt the earth and 12 sky 13 My joy my terror and my splendid love 14 Half fashions of the sunsets fiery glow 15 Sintram, Sintram – 16 My childish love my friend of long ago 17 Sintram Sintram 18 (she stands gazing out of the window 19 till the tho red light has paled) 20 he has vanished 21 (exit).

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1 Scene 5 49 2 a glade in the forest 3 Enter Alice and Moscon with 4 a bundle of herbs 5 Alice sick 6 How has your searching speed-full many ^ 7 Will nead to thank the for these herbs 8 Moscon 9 see here B have Behold mountain 10 The twelve you asked me for I have ^ 11 Behold blue purple green and fretted white 12 Your twelve aposlats in the holy art 13 Your sad? 14 Alice 15 I thank. Nay see I smile I am not sad 16 ^I thank thee in my peasents name for these 17 And in my own The flowers that you bring 18 You called them blue and purple some and white 19 I only know them by there smells and shapes 20 For I am blind these many lightless years 21 But yet the past and future grows more near

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1 To those the present hold with lightest hands 50 2 I had a vision in the midmost night 3 Of thee that makes me sad 4 Lead me I pray 5 Unto the fallen pine that lies near by 6 That I may rest and tell it thee 7 Msocon 8 T’is here 9 I lead thee here as you my gentle maid 10 Lead m 11 Led me a poor wild forester again 12 Unto the holy saints and love of men 13 Alice 14 A sudden gleem of clear colour seemed 15 to come 16 First like a mist then like a maiden crowned 17 and yet no maid for never mortal maid 18 I think had eyes of such a fearful calm 19 It took my hand and bid bid me rise in tones 20 More wild than screach owls call though low. I rose

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8 This text is written upside down at the bottom left corner of the page; it appears that Yeats began writing on the page with the notebook the wrong side up. 1 and passed with it among the silent trees 51 2 As fast as footing of the wind untill 3 I saw before my feet a silent hall 4 And hand and hand the thing and I passed in held 5 Upon the ground tall warriors lay who held 6 Some cups and some had drawn their 7 mantles close 8 as though with sudden chill but all were dead 9 Some lay upon the ground but most sat still 10 around the tables in a pallid throng 11 all dead . Upon a throne topt dais raised 12 near by the further end a maiden sat 13 With head hung low upon her breast. The thing 14 That held my hand said “dead” I looked on it 15 With her upon the throne it seemed as one lay 16 Near that dead crownéd maid methought you ^ 17 The thing si[ ? ]d dead and I awoke the [?] voice 18 Still ringing wildly in mine ears that felt 19 The silence of the woods more strange 20 more and dread 21 afa and then 22 Afar above the tress I saw dawn burn

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1 Moscon 52 2 fear not I’m but a simple forester 3 My death will never come beneath a roof 4 From this my seat upon the fallen trunk 5 I see high up the mountains misty slope 6 Not far beneath the gleam of ancient snows 7 A dead and solirary tree that rears 8 A sapless length and tempest blanced on high 9 Above its kind that leave a glade around 10 As though they sank from its forsaken strength 11 Near that high tree there is a hollow rock 12 Who’s mouth’s unknown to any feet save mine 13 Mine and the printless footing of the wind 14 There I shall live and die unless may hap ea 15 Some mountain bair or wounded boar at bay 16 Shall slay me in his lonly rage – Why then 17 Should you whom fate used ill man worse than 18 fate 19 [ ? ] Make yourself sad with vacant auguries

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your 1 I hear you foster fathers step close by 2 Upon the pine cones and the noisy leaves 3 Farewell the bands of mine old life will still 4 A bit fain keep me from mens company 5 Farewell Farewell my sweetest councillor 6 (Enter old peasent running) 7 Alice 8 Farewell if you must go 9 Moscon 10 Ill soon be ba back 11 Peasent 12 How is your sunstroke sir 13 Moscon 14 Tis well 15 Peasent (to Alice) g Hussy 16 Be gone ye know the way as well as eye 17 In spight of those owl’s eyes owls see at night 18 Moles eyes ay that’s the better word. moles eyes 19 (Exit Alice) 20 Moscon 21 Old man 22 Peasent 23 And isnt is’nt she my foster child

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1 Now sir just wait I’d have a word with you 53 2 Upon the day you were with sunstroak down 3 The shepherd Colin and those other two 4 Would after robi robbing you have left you 5 there 6 Hawks food worms food But I you 7 see this mark 8 Upon my face. Brought you away by 9 force 10 Now sir or rather mo noble ma night 11 Old peasent 12 Moscon I see you shall have pay 13 Ill come again and give you what I can 14 Old peasent 15 Stay now 16 Nor altogether that I meant But this 17 Moscon 18 O’ll be back farewell (exit up the mountain) 19 O Peasent lit lig[?] 20 And see you keep your fire well up all night

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[ ? ] 1 The banded parded pard an

bears 1 The banded pards and mountain bears are up 54 2 They slew a sheep last night a goodly sheep 3 There was no better ten miles round nay twelve 4 Moscon (shouting from above) 5 Ill not forget 6 Peasent 7 And if the fantoms speak 8 Then answer not again 9 Moscon (from above) 10 Look here old man 11 Tis not for naught ive ranged the pine ten years 12 O Peasent 13 Hot blood young blood he’s half way up the mount 14 (shouts) 15 Gard well you’r neck sir night among those rocks 16 He’s out of hearing now hot blood young blood 17 Methink I’d had a better bargain far 18 To’ve done as those two loons had wished to do 19 To take his cloak and purse and leave him there 20 Twere worth a crown or two nay four at least

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1 When once he has the pine twixt him and me 55 2 I’ll never see him more who now will say 3 That grey beard are the nurse of wisdoms self 4 And fore thought win for I have been a fool 5 And have discrased my age Ive been a fool

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1 Act 3 2 Scene 1 3 a dark stone room decks with 4 strange figures collumns and 5 alchemists tools 6 - a flight of stone steps to a 7 door above 8 Sebald busy leaning over 9 a small furnace 10 enter at the door above 11 a torch barrer followed by 12 Ginevra attended 13 Ginevra 14 You saw them talking say you

15 Torch barer 16 Ay lady 17 Ginevra 18 And knew them not 19 Torch barer 20 I did not know them lady 21 1 waiting woman 22 (still on the stairs) 23 O gossip we have done a wondrous deed

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[blank page] 1 and lit the light on hell 57 2 2 waiting woman 3 Pschaw how the brimstone smells 4 3 waiting woman 5 Now keep us saints 6 Ginevra (to Sebald) 7 I’m here about the thing you know of sir 8 Master him whom I wish to see you know 9 1 waiting women 10 Now holy moth Mary be thou merciful 11 2 waiting womeen 12 To raise the devil is against the church 13 (1 waiting women begins telling 14 he beads) 15 3 waiting Woman 16 good sir the sight of him will kill us all 17 Ginevra 18 have peace hince fools and wait me by the door 19 ye talk of lofty things ye know not of 20 good friend I pray the hold my cloak for me 21 go wait without the door till ye are called 22 (the hurry out)

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1 Sebald 58 2 Your waiting women are but timid souls 3 Ginevra 4 Among them the changeless wood their fathers 5 lived 6 And passed a quiet folk to quiet graves 7 They new not war of cunning of they song fear 8 What wondrous thing if fere forever is 9 By the side of the fires warming his hear 10 As native as the spots on woodpecker 11 is fear unto the harmless peasents race 12 Here sit I down in this great carved chair 13 That standeth chatting as it were with thine 14 Do not the dead men come and sit down here along 15 When thy old fingers sweep across the harp 16 Doth pu Paris come at times I think tis so of blue 17 And tell the of Helens eyes ^ 18 As yet untamed by Hades mist 19 And here 20 And when you sing sits old Ulyses here 21 The thin old greek with his keen eyes of grey 22 And tells the of the strong things done of old old 23 the 24 When [?through] froth smote all the sounding ores

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1 drawing the sea stained cloak about his chin 59 2 as though the foam sang all around him still 3 and hear the long armed Esop sits and talks 4 Of how the earth was green in Latium 5 Is it not so 6 Sebald 7 Shall I perform the spell 8 Ginevra 9 Is not the ground oer trod with holy feet 10 Sebald 11 (his hand on a curtain) 12 What hour of the day shall I recall 13 Ginevra 14 (pointing the head of a stone shelf of 15 alchemists tools) 16 Yet stay – y[?] why are the pipes of pan carved 17 there 18 Is it because before the birth of Years 19 Gifts all the happy gods to science gave 20 And Pan from mong his bounding satyres cried 21 A greater gift that all the gods I give 22 By then my hoofs and curved horns I sware 23 For tunes of pan shall wrap the robe alway

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[blank page] 1 and laugh in every sweeping fold it has 60 2 Is it no so 3 I will delay no more 4 Sebald you know what I have come to see 5 and let the time be twelve of yesterday 6 draw back the curtain I am firm as rock 7 (Sebald draws back the curtain and 8 shows a magic mirror bfore 9 before which he burns some 10 herbs a bright m[?] light 11 from the mirror fills the Room) 12 Sebald 13 Yhat What see you 14 Ginevra 15 a mist and nothing more 16 Sebald 17 Look now 18 Ginevra 19 I see a vision of dim trees 20 Among th twilight of the haunted wood 21 The shrivelled pine cones strew the grassless ground 22 Like columns of blue smoke the pines trees rise 23 One one I see an eger nut hatch climb

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[blank page] 1 and peck without a sound upon the stem 61 2 trees 3 And owl goes by and sinks among the gloom 4 for it is everlasing evening there 5 These things I see naught else 6 Sebald 7 Look once again. 8 Ginevra 9 Upon a beaten track that winding lies 10 beneath an even stretch of sword bright blue sky 11 I see two walking with short steps and slow 12 Two side by side beneath the pines blue shade 13 Their lips move as with those who talk of love 14 I hear no word and without sound they tread cones 15 on oer the withered husks and roots of pine and 16 T’is his sad face a glowing hair his face ^ talk of 17 There lips more as with those who mutter love 18 (faints) 19 Sebald (rushing to the door 20 The princess faints help help 21 (enter Waiting woman) 22 1 waiting women 23 T’is all against the holy church

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1 Scene 2 62 2 A Room in the Pallace 3 Ginevra sleeping on a couch 4 in the foreground 5 waiting women about 6 Ginevra (in her sleep) 7 Thou art uneasy in thy grave sayst thou are the 8 So of us two you ghost not I ^ 9 O cross leged sitter on the stone 10 know’st him 11 He is above the ceder and the pine 12 Above the pine and ceder dweleth he 13 ho speak what means that 14 Thy name – what means that everlasting smile 15 Answer to me spirit – what the stone is bare 16 Why hurry so fast to the earth beatles 17 1 waiting Woman 18 She wakes 19 Ginevra 20 There is no legend on the stone 21 Gone blurred away by the sucking of time 22 Waiting Woman 23 These many days she has been raving thus

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1 Ginevra 63 2 raving

3 Friends, my friends I have been raiv sore 4 Go switfly send for Seabald and his harp 5 For I am sad of soul 9 6 2 Waiting Women 7 Wha hast thou dream’t 8 Ginevra 9 There is a chateau in a far off wood 10 A roofless tower in a gloomy wild 11 A place of ashy trees and dripping boughs 12 A place of pallor of a changeless mist 13 A tower that has known so soon decay 14 It seems the court and banquet hall of death 15 a place where time and death have gambled long 16 It might have been the toy of centuries 17 And firmer stood 18 For time hath worn it not 19 No sooner do mine iele eyelids close in sleep 20 Than my soul seems to stand within its walls 21 Close by a slab of stone a nameless tomb 22 For ever in the castle whirls the wind 23 A place of every lasting wind and rain 24 For all the winderness around is calm

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[blank page] 1 As thou it were a nation charmed to stone 64 2 The fountains scarce may speek a honeyed world 3 Unto the moon so [?]ond was still it is 4 Yet ever there the feend of the storm 5 Sits on the walls and blows his trumpet shril 6 And from the tomb then comes a twisted chase azure 7 A hideous shape with plumes of azure flame 8 My soul and it talk their upon the tomb 9 A ghost by ghost upon the lonly tomb 10 Waiting Woman 11 Of what 12 Ginevra 13 Of many things they hold converse 14 Is Sebald coming for I’m sick of heart 15 If ever from the dream I do not wake 16 Cross thus my hands – place thus the crusafix 17 To keep the safe from that fell spright 18 - thus, thus, 19 Waiting woman 20 It is the gnome her father slew of old 21 It cursed the king and [?] dyed and it was layed 22 Beneath the ground in some old tower far 23 Within the center of the mountain land

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1 Down under the frantic joy of the waves 65 2 have sunk for the joy of royal whim 3 The tritons all shepherd for her there flocks vassals

4 While the wandring waves are here w stout 5 At beck of her hand is the boundless sea 6 The world is for the darlings of the bards 7 If they live on what mater who may die 8 What count doth make a sparrow eagle 9 slayn 10 Ginevra 11 Can weakly mortals then do such a dead 12 And grow as Phantoms of the sea or air 13 By driving human fealing from their hearts 14 Sebald 15 Yes some such legend is among the bards 16 Ginevra 17 Father I thank thee for they song ‘twas good 18 She was over masterful but queenly 19 Go one of you there, order my palfry 20 (no on stirs) 21 What dare you stop you dare to linger go 22 Within this hour I ride forth 23 Waiting Women 24 ride forth (goes)

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1 Sebald 66 But you are pale and ill ride not to da 2 But you are pale and ill ride not to day 3 Ginevra 4 Old man unto thy labritory old man 5 Work mong thy simples and thy roots and ores 6 Go round the measure of thy lonly song 7 Go measure out the wisdom of the world 8 Old man go measure count it drop by drop 9 Say that is hollow and this still has truth 10 But hast thou tried a wayard thought in scales 11 Or counted the steps of a wandring grief 12 No No thou art to old for that old man 13 Waiting Woman 14 Who’l count the wandring of a young girls wits 15 Who’s youn enough for that 16 Ginevra 17 Girl you’r saucy 18 Waiting woman 19 Go not along for heaven love 20 Sebald 21 You still are s 22 are sick.

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1 Ginevra 67 2 fools fools at thy peril follow me 3 (exit) 4 Waiting woman 5 O sir she’s been of late as one possesed 6 You may not count on her a minutes space 7 So gentle once 8 Sebald 9 I’d follow but I do not dare

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