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 The Cure at Troy (version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, 1990)
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 The Cure at Troy (version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, 1990)