Shemus Monologue from The Countess Cathleen

From The Countess Cathleen by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

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I'll have no bolts, for there is not a thing That walks above the ground or under it I had not rather welcome to this house Than any more of mankind, rich or poor. (TEIG: So that they brought us money.) I heard say There's something that appears like a white bird, A pigeon or a seagull or the like, But if you hit it with a stone or a stick It clangs as though it had been made of brass; And that if you dig down where it was scratching You'll find a crock of gold. (TEIG: But dream of gold For three nights running, and there's always gold.) You might be starved before you've dug it out.

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