The Green Helmet and Other Poems Part 8
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LAEGAIRE'S WIFE
[_Without_]
Mine is the better to look at.
CONALL'S WIFE
[_Without_]
But mine is better born.
EMER
[_Without_]
My man is the pithier man.
CUCHULAIN
Old hurricane, well done!
You've set our wives to the game that they may egg us on; We are to kill each other that you may sport with us.
Ah, now, they've begun to wrestle as to who'll be first at the house.
[_The Women come to the door struggling_]
EMER
No, I have the right of place for I married the better man.
CONALL'S WIFE
[_Pulling Emer back_]
My nails in your neck and shoulder.
LAEGAIRE'S WIFE
And go before me if you can.
My husband fought in the West.
CONALL'S WIFE
[_Kneeling in the door so as to keep the others out who pull at her_]
But what did he fight with there But sidelong and spitting and helpless shadows of the dim air?
And what did he carry away but straw and broken delf?
LAEGAIRE'S WIFE
Your own man made up that tale trembling alone by himself, Drowning his terror.
EMER
[_Forcing herself in front_]
I am Emer, it is I go first through the door.
No one shall walk before me, or praise any man before My man has been praised.
CUCHULAIN
[_Spreading his arms across the door so as to close it_]
Come, put an end to their quarrelling: One is as fair as the other, and each one the wife of a king.
Break down the painted boards between the sill and the floor That they come in together, each one at her own door.
[_LAEGAIRE and CONALL begin to break out the bottoms of the windows, then their wives go to the windows, each to the window where her husband is. EMER stands at the door and sings while the boards are being broken out_]
EMER
Nothing that he has done, His mind that is fire, His body that is sun, Have set my head higher Than all the world's wives.
Himself on the wind Is the gift that he gives, Therefore womenkind, When their eyes have met mine, Grow cold and grow hot, Troubled as with wine By a secret thought, Preyed upon, fed upon By jealousy and desire.
I am moon to that sun, I am steel to that fire,
[_The windows are now broken down to floor. CUCHULAIN takes his spear from the door, and the three Women come in at the same moment_]
EMER
Cuchulain, put off this sloth and awake: I will sing till I've stiffened your lip against every knave that would take A share of your honour.
LAEGAIRE'S WIFE
You lie, for your man would take from my man.
CONALL'S WIFE
[_To LAEGAIRE'S WIFE_]
You say that, you double-face, and your own husband began.
CUCHULAIN
[_Taking up Helmet from table_]
Town land may rail at town land till all have gone to wrack, The very straws may wrangle till they've thrown down the stack; The very door-posts bicker till they've pulled in the door, The very ale-jars jostle till the ale is on the floor, But this shall help no further.
[_He throws Helmet into the sea_]
LAEGAIRE'S WIFE
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