Would They Had Stayed. Loughcrew: Peter Fallon, 1997. Single sheet of white folded card, with illustration to upper cover depicting “The Deer from Basilica San Clemente”

Privately printed for the author for use as his Christmas card for 1997.

‘Would they had stay’d’ Macbeth, Act 1 Scene iii

Signed by Seamus Heaney

The San Clemente mosaic deer, poised at a fountain, is a symbol of spiritual thirst, renewal, and the soul’s instinctive turning toward sustenance.