Sweeney Astray (9 page)

86   After that, Sweeney rose out of his swoon. Moling took him by the hand and both went towards the door of the church. When they reached the door Sweeney leaned his shoulders against the jamb and breathed a loud sigh. His spirit fled to heaven and his body was given an honourable burial by Moling.

87   These have been some of the stories about the adventures of Sweeney, son of Colman Cuar, king of Dal-Arie.

BOOKS BY SEAMUS HEANEY

POETRY

Death of a Naturalist

Door into the Dark

Wintering Out

North

Field Work

Poems 1965–1975

Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish

Station Island

The Haw Lantern

Selected Poems 1966–1987

Seeing Things

Sweeney's Flight
(with photographs by Rachel Giese)

The Spirit Level

 

CRITICISM

Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968–78

The Government of the Tongue

The Redress of Poetry

 

PLAYS

The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes

 

TRANSLATIONS

Laments: Poems of Jan Kochanowski
(with Stanislaw Baranczak)

 

Copyright © 1983 by Seamus Heaney

All rights reserved

First published in Ireland in 1983 by

Field Day Theatre Company Limited, Derry

First American edition, 1984

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Heaney, Seamus.   /   Sweeney astray.

1. Suibhne Geilt—Poetry.   2. Magh Rath, Battle of, 637—Poetry. I. Buile Suibhne Geilt.   II. Title.

PR6058.E2S9   1984   821'.914   84-1512

eISBN 9781466855809

First eBook edition: October 2013