‘The sorrowful are dumb for thee.’
Lament of Morion Shehone for Miss Mary Bourke.
To Maud Gonne.
PERSONS IN THE PLAY
- Shemus Rua, a peasant
- Teig, his son
- Aleel, a young bard
- Maurteen, a gardener
- The Countess Cathleen
- Oona, her foster-mother
- Maire, wife of Shemus Rua
- Two Demons disguised as merchants
- Musicians
- Peasants, Servants, &c.
- Angelical Beings, Spirits, and Faeries