They let the ground keep that ancestral treasure, gold unde… - Seamus Heaney

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They let the ground keep that ancestral treasure,
gold under gravel, gone to earth,
as useless to men now as it ever was.

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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This is the vowel of earth
dreaming its root
in flowers and snow,

mutation of weathers
and seasons,
a windfall composing
the floor it rots into.

I grew out of all this
like a weeping willow
inclined to
the appetites of gravity.

The whole of the Irish landscape, in John Montague's words, is a manuscript which we have lost the skill to read.

You are like a rich man entering heaven/through the ear of a raindrop.

They let the ground keep that ancestral treasure, gold under gravel, gone to earth, as useless to men now as it ever was. - Seamus Heaney

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