Produced by Emmy, mollypit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Music transcribed by Linda Cantoni. THE COLLECTED WORKS OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS [Illustration: _Emery Walker Ph. sc._ _From a picture by Charles Shannon_] THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN. THE LAND OF HEART’S DESIRE. THE UNICORN FROM THE STARS :: BEING THE THIRD VOLUME OF THE COLLECTED WORKS IN VERSE AND PROSE OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS :: IMPRINTED AT THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS :: STRATFORD-ON-AVON MCMVIII CONTENTS PAGE THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN 1 THE LAND OF HEART’S DESIRE 89 THE UNICORN FROM THE STARS, BY LADY GREGORY AND W. B. YEATS 121 APPENDIX: THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN 209 NOTES 214 THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN ‘_The sorrowful are dumb for thee._’ Lament of MORION SHEHONE for MISS MARY BOURKE. TO MAUD GONNE. _PERSONS IN THE PLAY_ SHEMUS RUA, _a peasant_ TEIG, _his son_ ALEEL, _a young bard_ MAURTEEN, _a gardener_ THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN OONA, _her foster-mother_ MAIRE, _wife of Shemus Rua_ TWO DEMONS _disguised as merchants_ MUSICIANS PEASANTS, SERVANTS, &C. ANGELICAL BEINGS, SPIRITS, AND FAERIES _The scene is laid in Ireland, and in old times._ THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN. ACT I. _The cottage of SHEMUS REA. The door into the open air is at right side of room. There is a window at one side of the door, and a little shrine of the Virgin Mother at the other. At the back is a door opening into a bedroom, and at the left side of the room a pantry door. A wood of oak, beech, hazel, and quicken is seen through the window half hidden in vapour and twilight. MAIRE watches TEIG, who fills a pot with water. He stops as if to listen, and spills some of the water._ MAIRE. You are all thumbs. TEIG. Hear how the dog bays, mother, And how the gray hen flutters in the coop. Strange things are going up and down the land, These famine times: by Tubber-vanach crossroads A woman met a man with ears spread out, And they moved up and down like wings of bats. MAIRE. Shemus stays late. TEIG. By Carrick-orus churchyard, A herdsman met a man who had no mouth, Nor ears, nor eyes: his face a wall of flesh; He saw him plainly by the moon. MAIRE. [_Going over to the little shrine._]