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Planting the Alder

Planting the Alder. By Seamus Heaney. For the bark, dulled argent, roundly wrapped And pigeon-collared. For the splitter-splatter, guttering Rain-flirt leaves. For the snub and clot of the first green cones, Smelted emerald, chlorophyll. For the scut and scat of cones in winter,

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Planting the Alder

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  1. Planting the Alder By Seamus Heaney

  2. For the bark, dulled argent, roundly wrapped And pigeon-collared. For the splitter-splatter, guttering Rain-flirt leaves. For the snub and clot of the first green cones, Smelted emerald, chlorophyll. For the scut and scat of cones in winter, So rattle-skinned, so fossil-brittle. For the alder-wood, flame-red when torn Branch from branch.

  3. For the alder-wood, flame-red when torn Branch from branch. But mostly for the swinging locks Of yellow catkins, Plant it, plant it, Streel-head in the rain.

  4. For the bark, dulled argent, roundly wrapped And pigeon-collared.

  5. Roundly wrapped and pigeon collared

  6. For the splitter-splatter, guttering Rain-flirt leaves.

  7. For the snub and clot of the first green cones, Smelted emerald, chlorophyll.

  8. For the alder-wood, flame-red when torn Branch from branch.

  9. For the scut and scat of cones in winter, So rattle-skinned, so fossil-brittle.

  10. But mostly for the swinging locks Of yellow catkins,

  11. Plant it, plant it, Streel-head in the rain.

  12. For the bark, dulled argent, roundly wrapped And pigeon-collared. For the splitter-splatter, guttering Rain-flirt leaves. For the snub and clot of the first green cones, Smelted emerald, chlorophyll. For the scut and scat of cones in winter, So rattle-skinned, so fossil-brittle.

  13. For the alder-wood, flame-red when torn Branch from branch. But mostly for the swinging locks Of yellow catkins, Plant it, plant it, Streel-head in the rain.

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