MARTIN.
[Looking at his hand, on which there is blood.]
Ah, that is blood! I fell among the rocks. It is a hard climb. It is a long climb to the vineyards of Eden. Help me up. I must go on. The Mountain of Abiegnos is very high—but the vineyards—the vineyards!
[He falls back dead. The men uncover their heads.
PAUDEEN [to BIDDY].
It was you misled him with your foretelling that he was coming within the best day of his life.
JOHNNY.
Madness on him or no madness, I will not leave that body to the law to be buried with a dog’s burial or brought away and maybe hanged upon a tree. Lift him on the sacks, bring him away to the quarry; it is there on the hillside the boys will give him a great burying, coming on horses and bearing white rods in their hands.
[NANNY lays the velvet cloak over him.
They lift him and carry the body away singing:
Our hope and our darling, our heart dies with you,