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    The poem describes a night watch during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, with the speaker alone guarding cattle as armored vehicles and soldiers pass by. The speaker feels like the sole witness to this tension and unrest, like a bringer of bad news. The poem references those who sow conflict and erect memorials to the dead.

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    The poem describes a night watch during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, with the speaker alone guarding cattle as armored vehicles and soldiers pass by. The speaker feels like the sole witness to this tension and unrest, like a bringer of bad news. The poem references those who sow conflict and erect memorials to the dead.

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    The Toome Road

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    The poem describes a night watch during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, with the speaker alone guarding cattle as armored vehicles and soldiers pass by. The speaker feels like the sole witness to this tension and unrest, like a bringer of bad news. The poem references those who sow conflict and erect memorials to the dead.

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    The Toome Road

    Seamus Heaney

    armoured carspowerful tyresheadphoned soldiers

    the whole country was sleepingcattle in my keeping silos, chill gates, wet slates

    the bringer of bad newsthat small-hours visitant

    Sowers of seeds, erectors of headstones

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