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(He exhibits to Dublin reporters traces of burning. The
daughters of Erin, in black garments, with large prayerbooks
and long lighted candles in their hands, kneel down and
pray.)
THE DAUGHTERS OF ERIN:
Kidney of Bloom, pray for us
Flower of the Bath, pray for us
Mentor of Menton, pray for us
Canvasser for the Freeman, pray for us
Charitable Mason, pray for us
Wandering Soap, pray for us
Sweets of Sin, pray for us
Music without Words, pray for us
Reprover of the Citizen, pray for us
Friend of all Frillies, pray for us
Midwife Most Merciful, pray for us
Potato Preservative against Plague and Pestilence, pray for us.(A choir of six hundred voices, conducted by Vincent
O’brien, sings the chorus from Handel’s Messiah alleluia for
the lord god omnipotent reigneth, accompanied on the organ
by Joseph Glynn. Bloom becomes mute, shrunken, carbon-
ised.)
ZOE: Talk away till you’re black in the face.
BLOOM: (In caubeen with clay pipe stuck in the band,
dusty brogues, an emigrant’s red handkerchief bundle in his
hand, leading a black bogoak pig by a sugaun, with a smile
in his eye) Let me be going now, woman of the house, for by