Monologue

Aleel Monologue from The Land of Heart's Desire

From The Land of Heart's Desire by W.B. Yeats

male · dark · 1:14 min

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They who have sent me walk invisible. (CATHLEEN: Men say that the wise people of the raths Have given you wisdom.) I lay in the dusk Upon the grassy margin of a lake Among the hills, where none of mortal creatures But the swan comes—my sleep became a fire. One walked in the fire with birds about his head. (CATHLEEN: Ay, Aengus of the birds.) He may be Aengus, But it may be he bears an angelical name. Lady, he bid me call you from these woods; He bids you bring Oona, your foster-mother, And some few serving-men and live in the hills Among the sounds of music and the light Of waters till the evil days are gone. (He kneels.) For here some terrible death is waiting you; Some unimaginable evil, some great darkness That fable has not dreamt of, nor sun nor moon Scattered.

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Aleel warns a lady of an impending doom, urging her to escape to the hills with her foster-mother and servants, suggesting a sense of urgency and danger in the atmosphere.

20s · fear · death · darkness · fate · isolation

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