Voice of the Day: Seamus Heaney | Sojourners

Voice of the Day: Seamus Heaney

Call the miracle self-healing:
The utter self-revealing
double-take of feeling.
If there's fire on the mountain
Or lightning and storm
And a god speaks from the sky


That means someone is hearing
the outcry and the birth-cry
of new life at its term.
It means once in a lifetime
That justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.

- Seamus Heaney,
excerpt from "The Cure at Troy."

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