Is there life before death? That’s chalked up In Ballymurp… - Seamus Heaney

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Is there life before death? That’s chalked up

In Ballymurphy. Competence with pain,

Coherent miseries, a bite and a sup,

We hug our little destiny again.

Seamus Heaney

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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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So whether he calls it spirit music or not, I don't care. He took it out of wind off mid-Atlantic.

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Mutter about let-downs and erosions
And yet each drop recalls

The diamond absolutes.

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