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Thomas Wylie: Inspired to write

October 11, 2016

REMEMBERING SEAMUS HEANEY
 
Gone now,
And the plough is still rusting
And spade handles wormholed, hay dust blowing,
But trampled ground no more,
For Ulster's greatest word man,
Farm trails alone
Along stain dykes, with wind and rain
Awakening the spirit in him
Dis patching his love of the sod, and
Proclaiming effortless lines
Of land weather and living.
And his patriotic backbone, that
Never crumbled, with the worst that
The North could lay on us,
Were we,
Hanging on, till death to find
Words, in his passing,
Do we love him more now
As we turn the pages of his story,
I think we do.
 

 
 
 
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