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Valediction

Seamus Heaney (born 1939)

Valediction

Lady with the frilled blouse

And simple tartan skirt,

Since you have left the house

Its emptiness has hurt

All thought. In your presence

Time rode easy, anchored

On a smile; but absence

Rocked love's balance, unmoored

The days. They buck and bound

Across the calendar

Pitched from the quiet sound

Of your flower-tender Voice.

Need breaks on my strand;

You've gone, I am at sea.

Until you resume command

Self is in mutiny.

11:01 p.m. - 2001-09-26

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