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Seamus Heaney

A Drink of Water

A Drink of Water

A Drink of Water

Nights when a full moon lifted past her gable

It fell back through her window and would lie

A Drink of Water

Announced her. I recall

Her gray apron, the pocked white enamel

Of the brimming bucket, and the treble

Creak of her voice like the pump's handle.

Into the water set out on the table.

Where I have dipped to drink again, to be

A Drink of Water

A Drink of Water

Faithful to the admonishment on her cup,

"Remember the Giver" fading off the lip.

The pump's whooping cough, the bucket's clatter

And slow diminuendo as it filled,

A Drink of Water

She came every morning to draw water

Like an old bat staggering up the field:

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