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A New Verse Translation
by Seamus Heaney
its gables wide and high and awaiting
a barbarous burning. That doom abided,
but in time it would come: the killer instinct
unleashed among in-laws, the blood-lust rampant.
Copyright © 2000, Seamus Heaney. All rights reserved
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
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