My
place of clear water,
the first hill in the world
where springs washed into
the shiny grass
the first hill in the world
where springs washed into
the shiny grass
and
darkened cobbles
in the bed of the lane.
Anahorish, soft gradient
of consonant, vowel-meadow,
in the bed of the lane.
Anahorish, soft gradient
of consonant, vowel-meadow,
after-image
of lamps
swung through the yards
on winter evenings.
With pails and barrows
swung through the yards
on winter evenings.
With pails and barrows
those
mound-dwellers
go waist-deep in mist
to break the light ice
at wells and dunghills.
go waist-deep in mist
to break the light ice
at wells and dunghills.
Seamus
Heaney
Some
kind of sung magic....