The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 4 (of 8)

part in my _Hour-Glass_, one finds it desirable for the player to speak

always upon pure musical notes, written out beforehand and carefully rehearsed. On the one occasion when I heard the Angel’s part spoken in this way with entire success, the contrast between the crystalline quality of the pure notes and the more confused and passionate speaking of the Wise Man was a new dramatic...