Cathleen Monologue from The Land of Heart's Desire

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

female · melancholic · 51 sec

Bend down your faces, Oona and Aleel: I gaze upon them as the swallow gazes Upon the nest under the eave, before He wander the loud waters: do not weep Too great a while, for there is many a candle On the high altar though one fall. Aleel, Who sang about the people of the raths, That know not the hard burden of the world, Having but breath in their kind bodies, farewell! And farewell, Oona, who spun flax with me Soft as their sleep when every dance is done: The storm is in my hair and I must go. [She dies.

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