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Йейтс Уильям Батлер
«Стихи. (В переводах разных авторов)»

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MICHAEL. What way will you do that, ma'am?


OLD WOMAN. I have good friends that will help me. They are gathering to help me now. I am not afraid. If they are put down to-day, they will get the upper hand to-morrow. [She gets up.] I must be going to meet my friends. They are coming to help me, and I must be there to welcome them. I must call the neighbours together to welcome them.


MICHAEL. I will go with you.


BRIDGET. It is not her friends you have to go and welcome, Michael; it is the girl coming into the house you have to welcome. You have plenty to do, it is food and drink you have to bring to the house. The woman that is coming home is not coming with empty hands; you would not have an empty house before her. [To the OLD WOMAN.] Maybe you don't know, ma'am, that my son is going to be married to-morrow.


OLD WOMAN. It is not a man going to his marriage that I look to for help.


PETER [to BRIDGET]. Who is she, do you think, at all?


BRIDGET. You did not tell us your name yet, ma'am.


OLD WOMAN. Some call me the Poor Old Woman, and there are some that call me Cathleen, the daughter of Houlihan.


PETER. I think I knew someone of that name once. Who was it, I wonder? It must have been someone I knew when I was a boy. No, no, I remember, I heard it in a song.


OLD WOMAN [who is standing in the doorway]. They are wondering that there

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