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THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE.
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For bidding Fate and Time and Change good-bye.
[A knock at the door. Maire Bruin opens it and then takes a sod of turf out of the hearth in the tongs and passes it through the door and closes the door and remains standing by it.
Maire Bruin.
A little queer old man in a green coat,
Who asked a burning sod to light his pipe.
Bridget Bruin.
You have now given milk and fire and brought
For all you know, evil upon the house.
Before you married you were idle and fine,
And went about with ribbons on your head;
And now you are a good-for-nothing wife.
Shawn Bruin.
Be quiet, mother!
Maurteen Bruin.
You are much too cross!
