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John Montague: Unmarked faces fierce with grief

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Falls Funeral

Unmarked faces
fierce with grief

a line of children
led by a small coffin

the young
mourning the young

a sight beyond tears
beyond pious belief

David's brethren
in the Land of Goliath

      --John Montague (1929- ), in Contemporary Irish Poetry (1988). This poem refers to the Troubles, and Falls Road in West Belfast.

17 October 2007 in Irish, On Death in a War or by Violence, On Pity, On Those Dying Young, On Troubles |

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