Then I thought of the tribe whose dances never fail / For they keep dancing till they sight the deer. - Seamus Heaney

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Then I thought of the tribe whose dances never fail / For they keep dancing till they sight the deer.

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About Seamus Heaney

Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, and translator. In 1995 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Alternative Names: Seamus Justin Heaney
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More than loud acclaim, I love
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