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History says, Don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The… — Seamus Heaney

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History says, Don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme.

Seamus Heaney
1990
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HopePolitical progressProgress
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1990
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Seamus Heaney
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Heaney, Seamus. The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles - Philoctetes. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1991.

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