Afterwards a boy-child was born to Shield, a cub in the yar… - Seamus Heaney

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Afterwards a boy-child was born to Shield,
a cub in the yard, a comfort sent
by God...

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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finally the end arrives
when the body he was lent collapses and falls
prey to its death; ancestral possessions
and the goods he hoarded are inherited by another
who lets them go with a liberal hand.

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

Nobody,
Nobody can be sure they're always right.
The ones who are fullest of themselves that way
Are the emptiest vessels.

Afterwards a boy-child was born to Shield, a cub in the yard, a comfort sent by God... - Seamus Heaney

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