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> [ One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest was Requiem for the Croppies, written 50 years after 1916 \[the year of the Easter Rising\].… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/one-of-the-very-first-poems-i-wrote-was-docker-that-fist-would-drop-a/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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