The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 2 (of 8) / The King's Threshold. On Baile's Strand. Deirdre. Shadowy Waters

by W. B. Yeats

I swear to be obedient in all things

To Conchubar, and to uphold his children.

CONCHUBAR.

We are one being, as these flames are one:

I give my wisdom, and I take your strength.

Now thrust the swords into the flame, and pray

That they may serve the threshold and the hearthstone

With faithful service.

[The KINGS kneel in a semicircle before the two WOMEN and CUCHULAIN, who thrusts his sword into the flame. They all put the points of their swords into the flame. The third WOMAN is at the back near the big door.