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But this sea is really the protagonist of the play ; the sea is Death, beating remorseless wings against the lives of these fisherfolk. There is the little cottage with its nets, oilskins, and spinning wheel, its womenfolk in their simple, flame-coloured skirts of homespun fabric, and the old mother bent with grief and years. The sea has taken her last son from her, and his poor body lies there amid poor surroundings and the keening of the women. I know of nothing more poignant than the closing... passage of the play, when the old woman recites the names of her sons and resigns herself to the bitterness of her lot. The dead body of Hartley lies there, and as she contemplates it with the sorrow of a mother inured to such sorrow, the clothes of her favourite son Michael, who has been drowned far away from land, are brought to her. She rises slowly and spreads these beside the dead body, and after sprinkling them with holy water turns the empty cup downwards on the table, and in words which are like the interpretation of a sob, accompanied by the rise and fall of the death-keen, she murmurs her irreparable woe : " They're all together this time, and the end is come.
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