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" Now it’s high watermark
and floodtide in the heart
and time to go.
The sea-nymphs in the spray
will be the chorus now.
What’s left to say?

Suspect too much sweet-talk
but never close your mind.
It was a fortunate wind
that blew me here. I leave
half-ready to believe
that a crippled trust might walk

and the half-true rhyme is love. "

Seamus Heaney , The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes


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Seamus Heaney quote : Now it’s high watermark <br />and floodtide in the heart<br />and time to go.<br />The sea-nymphs in the spray<br />will be the chorus now.<br />What’s left to say?<br /><br />Suspect too much sweet-talk<br />but never close your mind.<br />It was a fortunate wind<br />that blew me here. I leave<br />half-ready to believe <br />that a crippled trust might walk<br /><br />and the half-true rhyme is love.