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[front cover] NOTEBOOK 1 WB Yeats W. CARSON 51, GRAFTON ST. CORNER OF STEPHENS GREEN DUBLIN BOOKSELLER & STATIONER1 [Page break] 1 Stamped seal; Yeats’s signature is hand-written at top left of inside cover. WB Yeats 1 st 84 April 21 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 – [Page break, followed by blank verso page] [blank page] 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 [Page break, followed by blank verso page] [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 [Page break, followed by blank verso page] [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 [Page break, followed by blank verso page] [blank page] 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) [Page break] 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 [Page break] 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) [Page break, followed by blank verso page] [blank page] 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 [Page break, followed by blank verso page] [blank page] 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) [Page break, followed by blank verso page] [blank page] 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 [Page break, followed by blank verso page] [blank page] 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 [Page break, followed by blank verso page] [blank page] 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 [Page break, followed by blank verso page] [blank page] 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.