Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Last Songs
He told me once that it was on one particular occasion, when walking at even ing through the village of Slane in summer, that he heard a blackbird sing. The notes, he said, were very beautiful, and it is this blackbird that he tells of in three wonderful lines in his early poem called Behind the Closed Eye, and it is this song perhaps more than anything else that has been the inspiration of his brief life. Dynasties shook and the earth shook; and the war, not yet described by any man, revelled and and wallowed in destruction around him.
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