the senator promises to be a better representative to the people, and the sharecroppers welcome og and the now-verbal susan ("if this isn't love [reprise]"). finian, however, has lost the crock and his hope of getting rich. seeing that sharon and og have found their dreams, he goes off again in search of his own rainbow, saying 'maybe there's no pot of gold at the end of it, but there's a beautiful new world under it.' the cast tells him goodbye, promising to see him in glocca morra ("finale").