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The Toome Road

Seamus Heaney

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armoured cars…powerful tyres…headphoned soldiers

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the whole country was sleeping…cattle in my keeping…

silos, chill gates, wet slates

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the bringer of bad news…that small-hours visitant 

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Sowers of seeds, erectors of 

headstones…