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, from The Cure at Troy:A Version of Sophocles’ “Philoctetes”
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, from The Cure at Troy:A Version of Sophocles’ “Philoctetes”