Seamus Heaney reads Scaffolding

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Nobel prizewinner Seamus Heaney reading his poem Scaffolding at the Faber offices on the occasion of his seventieth birthday and Faber's eightieth.

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  • I think this is one of the finest contemporary love poems around.

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  • Masons, when they start upon a building, Are careful to test out the scaffolding; Make sure that planks won’t slip at busy points, Secure all ladders, tighten bolted joints. And yet all this comes down when the job’s done Showing off walls of sure and solid stone. So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be Old bridges breaking between you and me Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall Confident that we have built our wall.
  • This is a really nice poem

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