Daily Poem: Excerpt from “The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes” ~ Seamus Heaney
Excerpt from “The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes”
~ Seamus Heaney
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.
So hope for a great sea-change
on the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore
is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
and cures and healing wells.
Ffynnon Gofer, Llanover, Wales
