Quotation by Seamus Heaney

We have no prairies
To slice a big sun at evening—
Everywhere the eye concedes to
Encroaching horizon,
Is wooed into the cyclops' eye
Of a tarn.
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Bogland (l. 1–6). . .

Selected Poems 1966–1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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