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Crediting Poetry, by Seamus Heaney
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- I am neither internee nor informer; An inner émigré, a grown long-haired And thoughtful; a wood-kerne Escaped from the massacre, Taking protective colouring From bole and bark, feeling Every wind that blows; Who, blowing up these sparks For their meagre heat, have missed The once in a lifetime portent, The comet's pulsing rose.†
meagre = lacking in quantity or qualityunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use meager.
- Blowing up sparks for meagre heat.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(meager) lacking in quantity or quality
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, meager can describe someone as very thin.