Poems. W. B. Yeats

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      And yet it seemed

       As useless as the paring of one's nails.

      SHEMUS

      What sets me laughing when I think of it,

       Is that a rogue who's lain in lousy straw,

       If he but sell it, may set up his coach.

      TEIG (laughing)

      There are two gentlemen who buy men's souls.

      CATHLEEN

      O God!

      TEIG

      And maybe there's no soul at all.

      STEWARD

      They're drunk or mad.

      TEIG

      Look at the price they give.

      (Showing money.)

      SHEMUS (tossing up money)

      "Go cry it all about the world," they said.

       "Money for souls, good money for a soul."

      CATHLEEN

      Give twice and thrice and twenty times their money,

       And get your souls again. I will pay all.

      SHEMUS

      Not we! not we! For souls—if there are souls—

       But keep the flesh out of its merriment.

       I shall be drunk and merry.

      TEIG

      Come, let's away.

      (He goes.)

      CATHLEEN

      But there's a world to come.

      SHEMUS

      And if there is,

       I'd rather trust myself into the hands

       That can pay money down than to the hands

       That have but shaken famine from the bag.

      (He goes out R.)

      (Lilting)

      "There's money for a soul, sweet yellow money.

       There's money for men's souls, good money, money."

      CATHLEEN (to ALEEL)

      Go call them here again, bring them by force,

       Beseech them, bribe, do anything you like;

      (ALEEL goes.)

      And you too follow, add your prayers to his.

      (OONA, who has been praying, goes out.)

      Steward, you know the secrets of my house.

       How much have I?

      STEWARD

      A hundred kegs of gold.

      CATHLEEN

      How much have I in castles?

      STEWARD

      As much more.

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