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Eavan Aisling Boland - XII Outside History

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There are outsiders, always. These stars – <br />these iron inklings of an Irish January, <br />whose light happened <br /> <br />thousands of years before <br />our pain did: they are, they have always been <br />outside history. <br /> <br />They keep their distance. Under them remains <br />a place where you found <br />you were human, and <br /> <br />a landscape in which you know you are mortal. <br />And a time to choose between them. <br />I have chosen: <br /> <br />out of myth into history I move to be <br />part of that ordeal <br />whose darkness is <br /> <br />only now reaching me from those fields, <br />those rivers, those roads clotted as <br />firmaments with the dead. <br /> <br />How slowly they die <br />as we kneel beside them, whisper in their ear. <br />And we are too late. We are always too late. <br /> <br /> <br />Eavan Boland<br /><br />Eavan Aisling Boland<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/xii-outside-history/

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