On Baile's Strand
By W. B. Yeats
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W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats is widely regarded as one of the finest English language poets. His eclectic output frequently draws on his chief passions for the occult and the history of his homeland. The poetry, while often mystical and romantic, can also be gritty, realistic and frequently political. Yeats was also a major playwright and founded the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theatre. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
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On Baile's Strand - W. B. Yeats
ON BAILE'S STRAND
1904
BY W. B. YEATS
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To
William Fay
because of the beautiful fantasy of his
playing in the character of the Fool
CONTENTS
PERSONS IN THE PLAY
ON BAILE'S STRAND
PERSONS IN THE PLAY
A Fool Conchubar, High King of Ulad
A Blind Man A Young Man, son of Cuchulain
Cuchulain, King of Muirthemne Kings and Singing Women
ON BAILE'S STRAND
A great hall at Dundealgan, not 'Cuchulain's great ancient house' but an assembly house nearer to the sea. A big door at the back, and through the door misty light as of sea-mist. There are many chairs and one long bench. One of these chairs, which is towards the front of the stage, is bigger than the others. Somewhere at the back there is a table with flagons of ale upon it and drinking-horns. There is a small door at one side of the hall. A Fool and Blind Man, both ragged, and their features made grotesque and extravagant by masks, come in through the door at the back. The Blind Man leans upon a staff.
FOOL. What a clever man you are though you are blind! There's nobody with two eyes in his head that is as clever as you are. Who but you could have thought that the henwife sleeps every day a little at noon? I would never be able to steal anything if you didn't tell me where to look for it. And what a good cook you are! You take the fowl out of my hands after I have stolen it and plucked it, and you put it into the big pot at the fire there, and I can go out and run races with the witches at the edge of the waves and get an appetite, and when I've got it, there's the hen waiting inside for me, done to the turn.
BLIND MAN [who is feeling about with his stick]. Done to the turn.
FOOL [putting his arm round Blind Man's neck]. Come now, I'll have a leg and you'll have a leg, and we'll draw lots for the wish-bone. I'll be praising you, I'll be praising you while we're eating it, for your good