A landscape fossilized,It's stone-wall patterningsRepeated before our eyesIn the stone walls of Mayo.Before I turned to goHe talked about persistence,A congruence of lives,How, stubbed and cleared of stones,His home accrued growth ringsOf iron, flint and bronze- "Belderg
-Seamus Heaney
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