Johnny Monologue from The Land of Heart's Desire

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

male · anguished · 50 sec

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, You to have failed us, we are foals astray!

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