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Seamus Heaney

@HeaneyDaily

A daily quote from the poetry, prose & translations of Seamus Heaney, Nobel Laureate in Literature.

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It’s Hallowe’en. The turnip-man’s lopped head
Blazes at us through split bottle glass
And fumes and swims up like a wrecker’s lantern.

Death mask of harvest, mocker at All Souls
With scorching smells, red dog’s eyes in the night-
We ring and stare into unhallowed light.

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