Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney

Author:Seamus Heaney
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2015-04-21T16:00:00+00:00

Get him, take him live or dead,

every man fall to.

Draw and quarter, pike

and spit him, none will blame you.

Still the horsemen followed

across the north of Down,

my back escaping nimbly

from every javelin thrown.

As if I had been cast

by a spearsman, I flew high,

my course a whisper in the air,

a breeze flicking through ivy.

I overtook the startled fawn,

kept step with his fleet step,

I caught, I rode him lightly—

from peak to peak we leapt,

mountain after mountain,

a high demented spree

from Inishowen south,

and south, as far as Galtee.

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