I have lived in important places,
When great events were decided, who
That half a rood of rock, a no-man's
Surrounded by our pitchfork-armed claims.
I heard the Duffys shouting "Damn your soul!"And old
Cabe stripped to the waist,
Step the plot defying blue cast-steel -"Here is the march along these iron stones."That was the year of the Munich bother.
Was more important?
I
To lose my faith in Ballyrush and
Till Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind.
He said:
I made the Iliad from suchA local row.
Gods make their own importance.
