MAURYA.
_Puts the empty cup mouth downwards on the table, and lays her hands
together on Bartley’s feet._—They’re all together this time, and the
end is come. May the Almighty God have mercy on Bartley’s soul, and on
Michael’s soul, and on the souls of Sheamus and Patch, and Stephen and
Shawn [_bending her head_]; and may He have mercy on my soul, Nora, and
on the soul of every one is left living in the world.
[_She pauses, and the keen rises a little more loudly from the women,
then sinks away._]
MAURYA.
_Continuing._—Michael has a clean burial in the far north, by the grace
of the Almighty God. Bartley will have a fine coffin out of the white
boards, and a deep grave surely. What more can we want than that? No
man at all can be living for ever, and we must be satisfied.
[_She kneels down again and the curtain falls slowly._]
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Riders to the Sea, by J. M. Synge