Watching the inauguration – hope and history rhymes

by Matthew Stibbe on January 20, 2009

For me, Seamus Heaney put it best:

History says, Don’t hope
on this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
the longed for tidal wave
of justice can rise up,
and hope and history rhyme.

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    Jude January 21, 2009 at 2:12 am

    I love it. Since I found the official inaugural poem execrable, I’m collecting poems and statements that mean more. This one is going on my wall.

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    Susan Hurrell January 22, 2009 at 3:32 am

    VP Biden quoted this poem at one of the inaugural balls. Irish poets say it best!

    I thought that the Inauguration Poem was a good piece of contemporary American poetry – but that it was diminished by a very stilted delivery – and that made it fall flat. It should have been read “gospel style” – like the closing benediction. But I digress.

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