Eugene [Kielt] quietly read us "The Strand at Lough Beg", [Seamus] Heaney's eulogy for his second cousin Colm McCartney, murdered by sectarian killers in 1975. The backdrop of the poem and the present setting were one and the same: cows in a mist, clay and water, a soft treeline.. . . I dab you clean with moss/Fine as the drizzle out of a low cloud/I lift you under the arms and lay you flat/With rushes that shoot green again, I plait/Green scapulars to wear over your shroud
from The Guardian: A field day for Seamus Heaney fanatics
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