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

FIRST WOMAN.

No crying out, for there’ll be need of cries

And knocking at the breast when it’s all finished.

[The WOMEN go out. There is a sound of clashing swords from time to time during what follows.

[Enter the FOOL dragging the BLIND MAN.

FOOL.

You have eaten it, you have eaten it! You have left me nothing but the bones.

[He throws BLIND MAN down by big chair.

BLIND MAN.