Scene 4 William Butler Yeats

SCENE.—A wood near the Castle, as in Scene 2. The SPIRITS pass one by one carrying bags.

FIRST SPIRIT.
I'll never dance another step, not one.

SECOND SPIRIT.
Are all the thousand years of dancing done?

THIRD SPIRIT.
How can we dance after so great a sorrow?

FOURTH SPIRIT.
But how shall we remember it to-morrow?

FIFTH SPIRIT.
To think of all the things that we forget.

SIXTH SPIRIT.
That's why we groan and why our lids are wet.

(The SPIRITS go out. A group Of PEASANTS Pass.)

FIRST PEASANT.
I have seen silver and copper, but not gold.

SECOND PEASANT.
It's yellow and it shines.