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Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Poem reprinted with Mr. Heaney's permission.
Oct/Nov 2001
Poetry
In Memory of Bill Cole
By
Seamus Heaney
As Dante when he entered Purgatory Was greeted by Casella, and the song Casella sang sweetened his memory
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