Who can foresee what later days will bring,
And who devote their feeling to those Powers
Which loose all being from its present ties
To guard it safe for all Eternity.’
The curtain falls, while the two Masters of Ceremonies are still in the hall
Scene 9
The woodland meadow, as in Scene 6. Joseph Keane, Dame Keane, their daughter Bertha; afterwards, Countryfolk, later the Monk; finally Keane’s foster-daughter Cecilia and Thomas.
Bertha: