get away.... Say
no word.... The Lord be praised that he is out of sight.

[CONSTABLES _come in._]

CONSTABLE. The man we are looking for, where is he? He was seen coming
here along with you. You have to give him up into the power of the law.

JOHNNY B. We will not give him up! Go back out of this or you will be
sorry.

PAUDEEN. We are not in dread of you or the like of you.

BIDDY. Throw them down over the rocks!

NANNY. Give them to the picking of the crows!

ALL. Down with the law!

FATHER JOHN. Hush! He is coming back. [_To_ CONSTABLES.] Stop, stop ...
leave him to himself. He is not trying to escape; he is coming towards
you.

PAUDEEN. There is a sort of a brightness about him. I misjudged him
calling him a traitor. It is not to this world he belongs at all. He is
over on the other side.

[MARTIN _has come in. He stands higher than the others upon
some rocks._]

MARTIN. _Ex calix meus inebrians quam praeclarus est!_

FATHER JOHN. I must know what he has to say. It is not from himself he
is speaking.

MARTIN. Father John, heaven is not what we have believed it to be. It
is not quiet; it is not singing and making music and all strife at an
end. I have seen it, I have been there. The lover still loves, but with
a greater passion; and the rider still rides, but the horse goes like
the wind and leaps the ridges; and the battle goes on always, always.
That is the joy of heaven, continual battle. I thought the battle was
here, and that the joy was to be found here on earth, that all one had
to do was to bring again the old, wild earth of the stories, but no, it
is not here; we shall not come to that joy, that battle, till we have
put out the senses, everything that can be seen and handled, as I put
out this candle. [_He puts out candle._] We must put out the whole
world as I put out this candle [_he puts out candle_]; we must put out
the light of the stars and the light of the sun and the light of the
moon [_he puts out the remaining candles and comes down to where the
others are_], till we have brought everything to nothing once again. I
saw in a broken vision, but now all is clear to me. Where there is
nothing, where there is nothing ... there is God!

CONSTABLE. Now we will take him!

JOHNNY B. We will never give him up to the law!

PAUDEEN. Make your escape! We will not let you be followed.

[_They struggle with_ CONSTABLES; _the women help them; all