“I can see myself before myself—a being through dark scenery.”
“Spring Music,” p. 34
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “A Conversations with Atoms”
“I rhyme
To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.”
—
Seamus Heaney
,
book
Death of a Naturalist
"Personal Helicon", line 19, from Eleven Poems (1965).
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To see myself, to set the darkness echoing." by Seamus Heaney?
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