Abrupt and thornproofed & lonely.
A raider from the old country
Of night prayer & principled challenge,
Crashing at barriers
You thought ought still to be there,
Overshooting into thin air.
O upright self-wounding prie-dieu
In shattered free fall:
Hail farewell.
Seamus Heaney
A raider from the old country
Of night prayer & principled challenge,
Crashing at barriers
You thought ought still to be there,
Overshooting into thin air.
O upright self-wounding prie-dieu
In shattered free fall:
Hail farewell.
Seamus Heaney
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