The Shadowy Waters
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<strong>The Shadowy Waters</strong>A Dramati
The deck of an a ship. At the right of the stage is the mast,
with a large square sail hiding a great deal of the sky and sea
on that side. The tiller is at the left of the stage; it is a long oar
ing through an opening in the bulwark. The deck rises in a
series of steps hehind the tiller, and the stern of the ship curves
overhead. When the play opens there are four persons upon the
deck. Aibric stands by the tiller. Fael sleeps upon the raised
portion of the deck towards the front of the stage. Two Sailors
are standio the mast, on which a harp is hanging.
First Sailor. Has he not led us into these waste seas
For long enough?
Sed Sailor. Aye, long and long enough.
First Sailor. We have not e upon a shore or ship
These dozen weeks.
Sd Sailor. And I had thought to make
A good round Sum upon this cruise, and turn -
For I am getting on in life - to something
That has less ups and downs than robbery.
First Sailor. I am so tired of being bachelor
I could give all my heart to that Red Moll
That had but the one eye.
Sed Sailor. o bewitt
Transform these rascal billows into women
That I may drown myself?
First Sailor. Better steer home,
Whether he will or no; aer still
To take him while he sleeps and carry him
And drop him from the gunnel.
Sed Sailor. I dare not do it.
Weret not that there is magi his harp,
I would be of your mind; but when he plays it
Strange creatures flutter up before ones eyes,
Or cry about ones ears.
First Sailor. Nothing to fear.
Sed Sailor. Do you remember when we sank that
galley
At the full moon?
First Sailor. He played all through the night.
Sed Sailor. Until the moon had set; and when I looked
Where the dead drifted, I could see a bird
Like a grey gull upon the breast of each.
While I was looking they rose hurriedly,
And after cirg with strange cries awhile
Fleard; and many a time sihen
Ive heard a rustling overhead in the wind.
First Sailor. I saw them on that night as well as you.
But when I had eaten and drunk myself asleep
My ce came again.
Sed Sailor. But thats not all.
The ht, while he laying it,
A beautiful young man and girl came up
In a white breaking wave; they had the look
Of those that are alive for ever and ever.
First Sailor. I saw them, too, one night. Fael was
playing,
And they were listening ther& beyond the sail.
He could not see them, but I held out my hands
To grasp the woman.
Sed Sailor. You have dared to touch her?
First Sailor. O she was but a shadow, and slipped from
me.
Sed Sailor. But were you not afraid?
First Sailor. Why should I fear?
Sed Sailor. "Twas Aengus and Edain, the wandering
lovers,
To whom all lovers pray.
First Sailor. But what of that?
A shadow does not carry sword or spear.
Sed Sailor. My mother told me that there is not one
Of the Ever-living half so dangerous
As that wild Aengus. Long before her day
He carried Edain off from a kings house,
And hid her among fruits of jewel-stone
And in a tower of glass, and from that day
Has hated every man thats not in love,
And has been dangerous to him.
First Sailor. I have heard
He does not hate seafarers as he hates
Peaceable men that shut the wind away,
Ao the one weary marriage-bed.
Sed Sailor. I think that he has Fael in his ,
And drags him through the sea,
First Sailor Well, or none,
Id drown him while we have the ce to do it.
Sed Sailor. Its certain Id sleep easier o nights
If he were dead; but who will be our captain,
Judge of the stars, and find a course for us?
First Sailor. Ive thought of that. We must have Aibric
with us,
For he judge the stars as well as Fael.
[Going towards Aibric.]
Bee our captain, Aibric. I am resolved
To make an end of Fael while he sleeps.
Theres not a man but will be glad of it
When it is over, nor oo grumble at us.
Aibric. You have taken pay and made your bargain for it.
First Sailor. What good is there in this hard way of
living,
Unless we drain more flagons in a year
And kiss more lips than lasting peaceable men
In their long lives? Will you be of our troop
And take the captains share of everything
And bring us into populous seas again?
Aibric. Be of your troop! Aibric be one of you
And Fael iher scale! kill Fael,
And he my master from my childhood up!
If you will draw that sword out of its scabbard
Ill give my answer.
First Sailor. You have awakened him.
[To Sed Sailor.]
Wed better go, for we have lost this ce.
[They go out.]
Fael. Have the birds passed us? I could hear your
voice,
But there were others.
Aibric. I have seen nothing pass.
Fael. Youre certain of it? I never wake from sleep
But that I am afraid they may have passed,
For theyre my only pilots. If I lost them
Straying too far into the north or south,
Id never e upon the happiness
That has been promised me. I have not seen them
These many days; ahere must be many
Dying at every moment in the world,
And flying towards their peace.
Aibric. Put by these thoughts,
And listen to me for a while. The sailors
Are plotting for your death.
Fael. Have I not given
More riches than they ever hoped to find?
And now they will not follow, while I seek
The only riches that have hit my fancy.
Aibric. What riches you find in this waste sea
Where no ship sails, where nothing thats alive
Has ever e but those man-headed birds.,
Knowing it for the worlds end?
Fael. Where the world ends
The mind is made unging, for it finds
Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope,
The flagstone under all, the fire of fires,
The roots of the world.
Aibric. Shadows before now
Have driven travellers mad for their own sport.
Fael. Do you, too, doubt me? Have you joiheir
plot?
Aibrio, no, do not say that. You knht well
That I will never lift a hand against you.
Fael. Why should you be more faithful than the rest,
Being as doubtful?
Aibric. I have called you master
Too many years to lift a hand against you.
Fael. Maybe it is but natural to doubt me.
Youve never known, Id lay a wager on it,
A melancholy that a cup of wine,
A lucky battle, or a womans kiss
Could not amend.
Aibric. I have good spirits enough.
Fael. If you will give me all your mind awhile -
All, all, the very bottom of the bowl -
Ill show you that I am made differently,
That nothing amend it but these waters,
Where I am rid of life - the events of the world -
What do you call it? - that old promise-breaker,
The ing fortueller that es whispering,
"You will have all you have wished for when you have
earned
Land for your children or money in a pot.-
And when we have it we are no happier,
Because of that old draught uhe door,
Or creaky shoes. And at the end of all
How are we better off than Seaghan the fool,
That never did a hands turn? Aibric! Aibric!
We have fallen in the dreams the Ever-living
Breathe on the burnished mirror of the world
And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh,
And find their laughter sweeter to the taste
For that brief sighing.
Aibric. If you had loved some woman -
Fael. You say that also? You have heard the voices,
For that is what they say - all, all the shadows -
Aengus and Edain, those passionate wanderers,
And all the others; but it must be love
As they have known it. Now the secrets out;
For it is love that I am seeking for,
But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind
That is not in the world.
Aibrid yet the world
Has beautiful women to please every man.
Fael. But he that gets their love after the fashion
"Loves in brief longing and deceiving hope
And bodily tenderness, and finds that even
The bed of love, that in the imagination
Had seemed to be the giver of all peace,
Is no more than a wine-cup iasting,
And as soon finished.
Aibric. All that ever loved
Have loved that way - there is no other way.
Fael. Yet never have two lovers kissed but they
believed there was some other near at hand,
And almost wept because they could not find it.
Aibric. When they have twenty years; in middle life
They take a kiss for what a kiss is worth,
Ahe dream go by.
Fael. Its not a dream,
But the reality that makes our passion
As a lamp shadow - no - no lamp, the sun.
What the worlds million lips are thirsting for
Must be substantial somewhere.
Aibric. I have heard the Druids
Mutter such things as they awake from trance.
It may be that the Ever-living know it -
No mortal .
Fael. Yes; if they give us help.
Aibric. They are besotting you as they besot
The crazy herdsman that will tell his fellows
That he has been all night upon the hills,
Riding to hurley, or itle-host
With the Ever-living.
Fael. What if he speak the truth,
And for a dozen hours have been a part
Of that more powerful life?
Aibric, His wife knows better.
Has she not seen him lying like a log,
Or fumbling in a dream about the house?
And if she hear him mutter of wild riders,
She knows that it was but the cart-horse coughing
That set him to the fancy.
Fael. All would be well
Could we but give us wholly to the dreams,
A into their world that to the sense
Is shadow, and not linger wretchedly
Among substantial things; for it is dreams
That lift us to the flowing, ging world
That the heart longs for. What is love itself,
Even though it be the lightest of light love,
But dreams that hurry from beyond the world
To make low laughter more tha and drink,
Though it but set us sighing? Fellow-wanderer,
Could we but mix ourselves into a dream,
Not in its image on the mirror!
Aibric. While
Were in the body thats impossible.
Fael. A I ot think theyre leading me
To death; for they that promised to me love
As those that outlive the moon have known it,
Had the worlds total life gathered up, it seemed,
Into their shining limbs - Ive had great teachers.
Aengus and Edain ran up out of the wave -
Youd never doubt that it was life they promised
Had you looked on them face to face as I did,
With so red lips, and running on such feet,
And having such wide-open, shining eyes.
Aibric. Its certain they are leading you to death.
the dead, or those that never lived,
know that ecstasy. Fael! Fael!
They have made you follow the man-headed birds,
And you have told me that their journey lies
Towards the try of the dead.
Fael. What matter
If I am going to my death? - for there,
Or somewhere, I shall find the love they have
promised.
That much is certain. I shall find a woman.
One of the Ever-living, as I think -
One of the Laughing People - and she and I
Shall light upon a pla the worlds core,
Where passion grows to be a geless thing,
Like charmed apples made of chrysoprase,
Or chrysoberyl, or beryl, or chrysclite;
And there, in juggleries of sight and sense,
Bee one movement, energy, delight,
Until the overburthened moon is dead.
[A number of Sailors entcr hurriedly.]
First Sailor. Look there! there in the mist! a ship of spice!
And we are almost on her!
Sed Sailor. We had not known
But for the ambergris and sandalwood.
First Sailor. NO; but opoponax and amon.
Fael [taking the tiller from Aibric]. The Ever-living have
kept my bargain for me,
And paid you on the nail.
Aibric. Take up that rope
To make her fast while lundering her.
First Sailor. There is a king and queen upon her deck,
And where there is one woman therell be others.
Aibric. Speak lower, or theyll hear.
First Sailor. They ot hear;
They are too busy with each other. Look!
He has stooped down and kissed her on the lips.
Sed Sailor. When she finds out we have better men
aboard
She may not be too sorry in the end.
First Sailor. She will be like a wild cat; for these queens
Care more about the kegs of silver and gold
And the high fame that e to them in marriage,
Than a strong body and a ready hand.
Sed Sailor. Theres nobody is natural but a robber,
And that is why the world totters about
Upon its bandy legs.
Aibric. Run at them now,
And overpower the crew while yet asleep!
[The Sailo out.]
<1[Voices and thc clashing of swords are heard from the
other ship, which ot be seen because of the sail.]
A Voice. Armed men have e upon us! O I am slain!
Another Voice. Wake all below!
Another Voice. Why have you brok<bdo></bdo>en our sleep?
First Voice. Armed men have e upon us! O I am
slain!
Fael [who has remai the tiller]. There! there they
e! Gull, ga, or diver,
But with a mans head, or a fair womans,
They hover over the masthead awhile
To wait their Fiends; but when their friends have
e
Theyll fly upon that secret way of theirs.
One - and one - a couple - five together;
And I will hear them talking in a minute.
Yes, voices! but I do not catch the words.
Now I hear. Theres one of them that says,
"How light we are, now we are ged to birds!
Another answers, "Maybe we shall find
Our hearts desire now that we are so light.
And then one asks another how he died,
And says, "A sword-blade pierced me in my sleep.-
And now they all wheel suddenly and fly
To the other side, and higher in the air.
And now a laggard with a womans head
dGmes g, "I have run upon the sword.
I have fled to my beloved in the air,
In the waste of the high air, that we may wander
Among the windy meadows of the dawn.
But why are they still waiting? why are they
Cirg and cirg over the masthead?
ower that is more mighty than desire
To hurry to their hidden happiness
Withholds them now? Have the Ever-living Ones
A meaning in that cirg overhead?
But whats the meaning? [He cries out.] Why do you
lihere?
Why linger? Run to your desire,
Are you not happy winged bodies now?
[His voice sinks again.]
Being too busy in the air and the high air,
They ot hear my voice; but whats the meaning?
<1[The Sailors have returned. Dectora is with them.]
Fael [turning and seeing her].>1 Why are you standing
with your eyes upon me?
You are not the worlds core. O no, no, no!
That ot be the meaning of the birds.
You are not its core. My teeth are in the world,
But have not bitte.
Dectora. I am a queen,
And ask for satisfa upon these
Who have slain my husband and laid hands upon me.
[Breaking loose from the Sailors who are holding her.]
Let go my hands!
Fael. Why do you cast a shadow?
Where do you e from? Whht you to this
place?
They would not send me ohat casts a shadow.
Dectora. Would that the storm that overthrew my ships,
And drowhe treasures of nine quered nations,
And blew me hither to my lasting sorrow,
Had drowned me also. But, bei alive,
I ask a fitting punishment for all
That raised their hands against him.
Fael. There are some
That weigh and measure all in these waste seas -
They that have all the wisdom thats in life,
And all that prophesying images
Made of dim gold rave out i tombs;
They have it that the plans of kings and queens
But laughter and tears - laughter, laughter, and tears;
That every man should carry his own soul
Upon his shoulders.
Dectora. Youve nothing but wild words,
And I would know if you will give me vengeance.
Fael. When she finds out I will not let her go -
When she knows that.
Dectora. What is it that you are muttering -
That youll not let me go? I am a queen.
Fael. Although you are more beautiful than any,
I almost long that it were possible;
But if I were to put you on that ship,
With sailors that were sworn to do your will,
And you had spread a sail for home, a wind
Would rise of a sudden, or a wave so huge
It had washed among the stars and put them out,
Ahe bulwark of your ship on mine,
Until you stood before me on the deck -
As now.
Dectora. Does wandering in these desolate seas
And listening to the cry of wind and wave
Bring madness?
Fael. Queen, I am not mad.
Dectora. Yet say
That unimagiorms of wind and wave
Would rise against me.
Fael. No, I am not mad -
If it be not that hearing messages
From lasting watchers, that outlive the moon,
At the most quiet midnight is to be stri.
Dectora. And did those watchers bid you take me
captive?
Fael. Both you and I are taken i.
It was their hands that plucked the winds awake
And blew you hither; and their mouths have
promised
I shall have love in their immortal fashion;
And for this end they gave me my old harp
That is more mighty than the sun and moon,
Or than the shivering casti of the stars,
That none might take you from me.
<1Dectora [first trembling back from the mast where the harp is,
and then laughing].>1 For a moment
Your raving of a message and a harp
More mighty thaars half troubled me,
But all thats raving. Who is there pel
The daughter and the granddaughter of kings
To be his bedfellow?
Fael. Until your lips
Have called me their beloved, Ill not kiss them.
Dectora. My husband and miy king died at my feet,
A you talk of love.
Fael. The movement of time
Is shaken in these seas, and what one does
One moment has no might upon the moment
That follows after.
Dectora. I uand you now.
You have a Druid craft of wicked sound
Wrung from the cold women of the sea -
A magic that call a demon up,
Until my body give you kiss for kiss.
Fael. Your soul shall give the kiss.
Dectora. I am not afraid,
While theres a rope to run into a noose
Or wave to drown. But I have doh words,
And I would have you look into my face
And know that it is fearless.
Fael. Do what you will,
For her I nor you break a mesh
Of the great goldehat is about us.
Dectora. Theres nothing in the world thats worth a
fear.
<1[She passes Fael and stands for a moment looking into
his face.]>1
I have good reason for that thought.
[She runs suddenly on to the raiscd part of the poop.]
And now
I put fear away as a queen should.
<1[She mounts on to the hulwark and turns towards
Fael.]>1
Fool, fool! Although you have looked into my face
You do not see my purpose. I shall have gone
Before a hand touch me.
Fael [folding his arms]. My hands are still;
The Ever-living hold us. Do what you will,
You ot leap out of the golde.
First Sailor. o drown, for, if you will pardon
us
And measure out a course and bring us home,
Well put this man to death.
Dectora. I promise it.
First Sailor. There is o take his side.
Aibric. I am on his side,
Ill strike a blow for him to give him time
To cast his dreams away.
<1[Aibric goes in front of Fael with drawn sword. For-
gael takes the harp.]>1
First Sailor. No otherll do it.
<1[The Sailors throw Aibri one side. He falls and lies
upon the deck. They lift their swords to strike Fael,>1
<1who is about to play the harp. The stage begins to
darken. The Sailors hesitate in fear.]
Sed Sailt;1 He has put a sudden darkness over the
moon.
Dectora. Nine swords with handles of rhinoceros horn
To him that strikes him first!
First Sailor. I will strike him first.
<1[He goes close up<mark></mark> tael with his sword lifted.]
[Shrinking back.] He has caught the crest moon out
of the sky,
And carries it between us.
Sed Sailor. Holy fire
To burn us to the marrow if we strike.
Dectora. Ill give a golden galley full of fruit,
That has the heady<mark>藏书网</mark> flavour of new wine,
To him that wounds him to the death.
First Sailor. Ill do it.
For all his spells will vanish when he dies,
Having their life in him.
Sed Sailor. Though it be the moon
That he is holding up between us there,
I will strike at him.
The Others. And I! And I! And I!
[Fael plays the harp.]
First Sailor [falling into a dream suddenly. But you were
saying there is somebody
Upon that other ship we are to wake.
You did not know what brought him to his end,
But it was sudden.
Sed Sailor. You are in the right;
I had fotten that we must go wake him.
Dectora. He has flung a Druid spell upon the air,
A you dreaming.
Sed Sailor. How we have a wake
When we have her brown nor yellow ale?
First Sailor. I saw a flagon of brown ale aboard her.
Third Sailor. How we raise the keen that do not
know
What o call him by?
First Sailor. e to his ship.
His name will e into our thoughts in a minute.
I know that he died a thousand years ago,
And has not yet been waked.
Sed Sailor [beginning to keen]. Ohone! O! O! O!
The yew-bough has been broken into two,
And all the birds are scattered.
All the Sailors. O! O! O! O!
[They go out keening.]
Dectora. Protect me now, gods that my people swear by.
<1[Aibric has risen from the deck where he had fallen. He
has begun looking for his sword as if in a dream.]>1
Aibric. Where is my sword that fell out of my hand
When I first heard the news? Ah, there it is!
<1[He goes dreamily towards the sword, but Dectora runs at
it and takes it up before he reach it.]>1
Aibric [sleepily]. Queen, give it me.
Dectora. No, I have need of it.
Aibric. Why do you need a sword? But you may keep it.
Now that hes dead I have no need of it,
For everything is gone.
A Sailor [calling from the other ship]. e hither, Aibric,
And tell me who it is that we are waking.
Aibric [half to Dectora, half to himself]. What name had
that dead king? Arthur of Britain?
No, no - not Arthur. I remember now.
It was golden-armed Iollan, and he died
Brokeed, having lost his queen
Through wicked spells. That is not all the tale,
For he was killed. O! O! O! O! O! O!
Folden-armed Iollan has been killed.
<1[He goes out.]
[While he has been speaking, and through part of what
follows, one hears the wailing of the Sailors from the
other ship. Dectora stands with the sword lifted in
front of Fael.]>1
Dectora. I will end all yi the instant.
<1[Her voice hees dreamy, and she lowers the sword
slowly, and finally lets it fall. She spreads out her hair.
She takes off her and lays it upon the deck.]>1
This sword is to lie beside him in the grave.
It was in all his battles. I will spread my hair,
And wring my hands, and wail him bitterly,
For I have heard that he roud and laughing,
Blue-eyed, and a quick runner on bare feet,
And that he died a thousand years ago.
O; O! O! O!
[Fael ges the tune.]
But no, that is not it.
They killed him at my feet. O! O! O! O!
Folden-armed Iollan that I loved-
But what is it that made me say I loved him?
It was that harper put it in my thoughts,
But it is true. Why did they run upon him,
Ahe golde with their swords?
Fael. Do you not know me, lady? I am he
That you are weeping for.
Dectora. No, for he is dcad.
O! O! O! O! folden-armed Iollan.
Fael. It was so given out, but I will prove
That the grave-diggers in a dreamy frenzy
Have buried nothing but my golden arms.
Listen to that low-laughing string of the moon
And you will recollect my fad voice,
For you have listeo me playing it
These thousand years.
<1[He starts up, listening to the birds. The harp slips from
his hands, and remains leaning against the bulwarks
behind him.]>1
What are the birds at there?
Why are they all a-flutter of a sudden?
What are you calling out above the mast?
If railing and reproad mockery
Because I have awakened her to love
By magic strings, Ill make this ao it:
Being driven on by voices and by dreams
That were clear messages from the Ever-living,
I have dht. What could I but obey?
A you make a clamour of reproach.
Dcctora [laughing]. Why, its a wonder out of reing
That I should keen him from the full of the moon
To the horn, and he be hale ay.
Fael. How have I wronged her now that she is merry?
But no, no, no! your cry is not against me.
You know the sels of the Ever-living,
And all that tossing of your wings is joy,
And all that murmurings but a marriage-song;
But if it be reproach, I ahis:
There is not one among you that made love
by any other means. You call it passion,
sideration, generosity;
But it was all deceit, and flattery
To win a woman in her owe,
For love is war, and there is hatred in it;
And if you say that she came willingly -
Dectora. Why do you turn away and hide your face,
That I would look upon for ever?
Fael. My grief!
Dectora. Have I not loved you for a thousand years?
Fael. I never have been golden-armed Iollan.
Vectora. I do not uand. I know your face
Better than my own hands.
Fael. I have deceived you
Out of all reing.
Tectora. Is it not tme
That you were born a thousand years ago,
In islands where the children of Aengus wind
In happy dances under a windy moon,
And that youll brihere?
Fael. I have deceived you;
I have deceived you utterly.
Dectora. How that be?
Is it that though your eyes are full of love
Some other woman has a claim on you,
And Ive but half!
Fael. O no!
Dectora. And if there is,
If there be half a hundred more, what matter?
Ill never give ahought to it;
No, no, nor half a thought; but do not speak.
Women are hard and proud and stubbored,
Their heads being turned with praise and flattery;
And that is why their lovers are afraid
To tell them a plain story.
Fael. Thats not the story;
But I have done so great a wrong against you,
There is no measure that it would not burst.
I will fess it all.
Dectora. What do I care,
Now that my body has begun to dream,
And you have grown to be a burning sod
In the imagination and intellect?
If something thats most fabulous were true -
If you had taken me by magic spells,
And killed a lover or husband at my feet -
I would not let you speak, for I would know
That it was yesterday and not to-day
I loved him; I would cover up my ears,
As I am doing noause.] Why do you weep?
Fael. I weep because Ive nothing for your eyes
But desolate waters and a battered ship.
Dectora. O why do you not lift your eyes to mine?
Fael. I weep - I weep because bare nights above,
And not a roof of ivory and gold.
Dectora. I would grow jealous of the ivory roof,
And strike the golden pillars with my hands.
I would that there was nothing in the world
But my beloved - that night and day had perished,
And all that is and all that is to be,
All that is not the meeting of our lips.
Fael. You turn away. Why do you turn away?
Am I to fear the waves, or is the moon
My enemy?
Dectora. I looked upon the moon,
Longing to knead and pull it into shape
That I might lay it on your head as a .
But now it is your thoughts that wander away,
For you are looking at the sea. Do you not know
How great a wrong it is to let ohought
Wander a moment when one is in love?
<1[He has moved away. She follows him. He is looking out
over the sea, shading his eyes.]>1
Why are you looking at the sea?
Fael. Look there!
Dectora. What is there but a troop of ash-grey birds
That fly into the west?
Fael. But listen, listen!
Dectora. What is there but the g of the birds?
Fael. If youll but listen closely to that g
Youll hear them calling out to one another
With human voices
Dectora. O, I hear them now.
What are they? Unto what try do they fly?
Fael. To unimaginable happiness.
They have been cirg over our heads in the air,
But now that they have taken to the road
We have to follow, for they are our pilots;
And though theyre but the colour of grey ash,
Theyre g out, could you but hear their words,
"There is a try at the end of the world
Where no childs born but to outlive the moon.
<1[The Sailors with Aibric. They are i
excitement.]>1
First Sailor. The hold is full of treasure.
Sed Sailor. Full to the hatches.
First Sailor. Treasure on treasure.
Third Sailor. Boxes of precious spice.
First Sailor. Ivory images with amethyst eyes.
Third Sailor. Dragons with eyes of ruby.
First Sailor. The whole ship
Flashes as if it were a of herrings.
Third Sailor. Lets home; Id give some rubies to a
woman.
Sed Sailor. Theres somebody Id give the amethyst
eyes to.
Aibric [sileng thcm with agesture]. We would return to
our own try, Fael,
For we have found a treasure thats so great
Imagination ot re it.
And having lit upon this woman there,
What more have you to look for on the seas?
Fael. I ot - I am going on to the end.
As for this woman, I think she is ing with me.
Aibric. The Ever-living have made you mad; but no,
It was this woman in her womans vengeance
That drove you to it, and I fool enough
To fancy t?.shed bring you home again.
Twas you that egged him to it, for you know
That he is being driven to his death.
Dectora. That is not true, for he has promised me
An unimaginable happiness.
Aibrid if that happiness be more than dreams,
More than the froth, the feather, the dust-whirl,
The crazy nothing that I think it is,
It shall be in the try of the dead,
If there be such a try.
Dectora. No, not there,
But in some island where the life of the world
Leaps upward, as if all the streams o the world
Had run into one fountain.
Aibric. Speak to him.
He knows that he is taking you to death;
Speak - he will not deny it.
Dectora. Is that true?
Fael. I do not know for certain, but I know.
That I have the best of pilots.
Aibric. Shadows, illusions,
That the Shape-gers, the Ever-laughing Ones,
The Immortal Mockers have cast into his mind,
Or called before his eyes.
Dectora. O carry me
To some sure try, some familiar place.
Have we not everything that life give
In having one another?
Fael. How could I rest
If I refused the messengers and pilots
With all those sights and all that g out?
Dectora. But I will cover up your eyes and ear?,
That you may never hear the cry of the birds,
Or look upon them.
Fael. Were they but lowlier
Id do your will, but they are too high - too high.
Dectora. Being too high, their heady prophecies
But harry us with hopes that e to nothing,
Because we are not proud, imperishable,
Alone and winged.
Fael. Our love shall be like theirs
When ut their geless image on.
Dectora. I am a woman, I die at every breath.
Aibric. Let the birds scatter, for the tree is broken,
And theres no help in words. [To the Sailors.]
To the other ship,
And I will follow you and cut the rope
When I have said farewell to this man here,
For her I nor any living man
Will look upon his face again.
[The Sailo out.]
Fael [to Dectora], Go with him,
For he will shelter you and bring you home.
Aibric [taking Faels hand]. Ill do it for his sake.
Dectora. No. Take this sword
And cut the rope, fo on with Fael.
Aibric [half falling into the keen]. The yew-bough has been
broken into two,
And all the birds are scattered - O! O! O!
Farewell! farewell! [He goes out.]
Dectora. The sword is in the rope -
The ropes in two - it falls into the sea,
It whirls into the foam. O a worm,
Dragon that loved the world and held us to it,
You are broken, you are broken. The world drifts
away,
And I am left aloh my beloved,
Who ot put me from his sight for ever.
We are alone for ever, and I laugh,
Fael, because you ot put me from you.
The mist has covered the heavens, and you and I
Shall be alone for ever. We two - this -
I half remember. It has been in my dreams.
Bend lower, O king, that I may you with it.
O flower of the branch, 0 bird among the leaves,
O silver fish that my two hands have taken
Out of the running stream, star
Trembling in the blue heavens like a white fawn
Upon the misty border of the wood,
Bend lower, that I may cover you with my hair,
For we will gaze upon this world no longer.
Fael [gatherioras hair about him]. Beloved, hav-
ing dragged the about us,
And knitted mesh to mesh, we grow immortal;
And that old harp awakens of itself
To cry aloud to the grey birds, and dreams,
That have had dreams for father, live in us.
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