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Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney, born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, was often called by his contemporaries the finest poet writing in English. In his early works, such as Death of a Naturalist (1966) and Door Into the
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Yeats said, To those who see spirits, human skin
For a long time afterwards appears most coarse.
The face I see that all falls short of since
Passes down an aisle: I share the bus
5From San Francisco Airport into Berkeley
With one other passenger, who's dropped
At the Treasure Island military base
Half-way across Bay Bridge, Vietnam-bound,
He could have been one of the newly dead come back,



