Monologue

Shemus Monologue from The Land of Heart's Desire

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

male · dark · 45 sec

You would rail my head off. Here is a good dinner. [He throws the wolf on the table. A wolf is better than a carrion crow. I searched all day: the mice and rats and hedgehogs Seemed to be dead, and I could hardly hear A wing moving in all the famished woods, Though the dead leaves and clauber of four forests Cling to my footsole. I turned home but now, And saw, sniffing the floor in a bare cow-house, This young wolf here: the crossbow brought him down.

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