The Shadowy Waters
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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The Shadowy Waters - W. B. Yeats
THE SHADOWY WATERS
(ACTING VERSION)
1911
BY W. B. YEATS
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CONTENTS
PERSONS IN THE PLAY
THE SHADOWY WATERS
PERSONS IN THE PLAY
Forgael Sailors
Aibric Dectora
THE SHADOWY WATERS
A mast and a great sail, a large tiller, a poop rising several feet above the stage, and from the overhanging stern a lanthorn hanging. The sea or sky is represented by a semicircular cloth of which nothing can be seen except a dark abyss. The persons move but little. Some sailor, are discovered crouching by the sail. Forgael is asleep and Aibric standing by the tiller on the raised poop.
FIRST SAILOR. It is long enough, and too long, Forgael has been bringing us through the waste places of the great sea.
SECOND SAILOR. We did not meet with a ship to make a prey of these eight weeks, or any shore or island to plunder or to harry. It is a hard thing, age to be coming on me, and I not to get the chance of doing a robbery that would enable me to live quiet and honest to the end of my lifetime.
FIRST. SAILOR. We are out since the new moon. What is worse again, it is the way we are in a ship, the barrels empty and my throat shrivelled with drought, and nothing to quench it but water only.
FORGAEL [in his sleep].