{"id":809,"date":"2010-09-09T00:52:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T04:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/20\/seamus-heaney-mite-box\/"},"modified":"2010-09-09T01:09:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T05:09:16","slug":"seamus-heaney-mite-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/09\/seamus-heaney-mite-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Seamus Heaney, “A Mite-Box”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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But still in your cupped palm to feel
\nThe chunk and clink of an alms-collecting mite-box,
\nFull to its slotted lid with copper coins,<\/p>\n

Pennies and halfpennies donated for
\n“The foreign missions”… Made from a cardboard kit,
\nWedge-roofted like a little oratory<\/p>\n

And yours to tote as you made the rounds,
\nIndulged on every doorstep, each donation
\nAccounted for by a pinprick in a card—<\/p>\n

A way for all to see a way to heaven,
\nThe same as when a pinholed camera
\nObscura<\/i> unblinds the sun eclipsed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Human Chain<\/i><\/a> is the latest collection from Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney<\/a>. While I was searching online for other poems from this collection, I came across this video of an earlier poem, “Digging<\/a>,” which I thought I would share with you:<\/p>\n

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But still in your cupped palm to feel The chunk and clink of an alms-collecting mite-box, Full to its slotted lid with copper coins, Pennies and halfpennies donated for “The foreign missions”… Made from a cardboard kit, Wedge-roofted like a little oratory And yours to tote as you made the rounds, Indulged on every doorstep, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}