An Angel Monologue from The Hour Glass

From The Hour Glass by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

any · philosophical · 58 sec

You must die because no souls have passed over the threshold of heaven since you came into this country. The threshold is grassy, and the gates are rusty, and the angels that keep watch there are lonely. (WISE MAN: Where will death bring me to?) The doors of heaven will not open to you, for you have denied the existence of heaven; and the doors of purgatory will not open to you, for you have denied the existence of purgatory. (WISE MAN: But I have also denied the existence of hell!) Hell is the place of those who deny. WISE MAN (kneeling). I have indeed denied everything and have taught others to deny. I have believed in nothing but what my senses told me. But, oh! beautiful Angel, forgive me, forgive me!

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