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256 William Butler Yeats
murder, do not love their enemies, and do not give
to any man that asks of them. But the Greens,
Ruttledge says, are the worst of all. For the
others break the law of Christ for their own
pleasure, but
"
you take pay for breaking it; when
their goods are taken away you condemn the taker;
when they are smitten on one cheek you punish the
smiter. You encourage them in their breaking of
the Law of Christ."
For several years Ruttledge lives the life of the
tinkers. But of weak physique, he finds himself
unable to withstand the rigors of the road. His
health breaks down, and his faithful comrades
carry him to his native town and bring him to a
monastery where Paul is cared for by the priests.
While there he begins to preach a wonderful
gospel, a gospel strange to the friars and the su
perior, so rebellious and terrible that he is de
clared a disenter, a heathen and a dangerous char
acter.
Paul Ruttledge. Now I can give you the message that
has come to me. . . .
Lay down your palm branches be
fore this altar; you have brought them as a sign that the
walls are beginning to be broken up, that we are going
back to the joy of the green earth. . . . For a long time
after their making men and women wandered here and
there, half blind from the drunkenness of Eternity; they
had not yet forgotten that the green Earth was the Love
of God, and that all Life was the Will of God, and so
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