The Green Helmet (Full Text) William Butler Yeats
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LAEGAIRE
What is that? I had thought that I saw, though but in the wink of an eye,
A cat-headed man out of Connaught go pacing and spitting by;
But that could not be.
CONALL
You have dreamed it—there’s nothing out there.
I killed them all before daybreak—I hoked them out of their lair;
I cut off a hundred heads with a single stroke of my sword,
And then I danced on their graves and carried away their hoard.
LAEGAIRE
Does anything stir on the sea?
CONALL
Not even a fish or a gull:
I can see for a mile or two, now that the moon’s at the full.
[A distant shout.]
LAEGAIRE
Ah—there—there is someone who calls us.
What is that? I had thought that I saw, though but in the wink of an eye,
A cat-headed man out of Connaught go pacing and spitting by;
But that could not be.
CONALL
You have dreamed it—there’s nothing out there.
I killed them all before daybreak—I hoked them out of their lair;
I cut off a hundred heads with a single stroke of my sword,
And then I danced on their graves and carried away their hoard.
LAEGAIRE
Does anything stir on the sea?
CONALL
Not even a fish or a gull:
I can see for a mile or two, now that the moon’s at the full.
[A distant shout.]
LAEGAIRE
Ah—there—there is someone who calls us.
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