You can't just pluck your honour off a bush You didn't plan… - Seamus Heaney

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You can't just pluck your honour off a bush
You didn't plant.

Seamus Heaney

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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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Wise conduct is the key to happiness.
Always rule by gods and reverence them.
Those who overbear will be brought to grief.
Fate will flail them on its winnowing floor
And in due season teach them to be wise.

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

Instead, in the morning, mangled and sleeping
the sleep of the sword, they slopped and floated
like the ocean's leavings.

You can't just pluck your honour off a bush You didn't plant. - Seamus Heaney

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