Death of a Naturalist by Heaney Seamus

Author:Heaney, Seamus [Heaney, Seamus]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780571250738
Publisher: Faber
Published: 2009-02-18T16:00:00+00:00

We’d known about the shortage, but on board

They always kept us right with flour and beef

So understand my feelings, and the men’s,

Who had no mandate to relieve distress

Since relief was then available in Westport –

Though clearly these poor brutes would never make it.

I had to refuse food: they cursed and howled

Like dogs that had been kicked hard in the privates.

When they drove at me with their starboard oar

(Risking capsize themselves) I saw they were

Violent and without hope. I hoisted

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