Falls Funeral
© By John Montague
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Unmarked faces
fierce with grief
a line of children
led by a small coffin
the young
mourning the young
a sight beyond tears
beyond pious belief
David’s brethren
in the Land of Goliath.
© John Montague, Falls Funeral, 1975, complete text, Collected Poems, 1995, The Gallery Press.
John Montague describes a pitiable funeral in which children follow the coffin of a child. Many of the dead of the Troubles were young.