Seamus Heaney

Was Seamus Heaney a Catholic poet?

Religion’s never mentioned here,’ of course.‘You know them by their eyes,’ and hold your tongue. ‘One side’s as bad as the other,’ never worse. Christ, it’s near time that some small leak was sprung In the great dykes the Dutchman made To dam the dangerous tide that followed Seamus. Yet for all this art and sedentary trade I am incapable.


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