"Rained-on, flower-laden, coffin after coffin,..." (Seamus Heaney)

"It was a day of cold
Raw silence, wind-blown
Surplice and soutane:
Rained-on, flower-laden
Coffin after coffin
Seemed to float from the door
Of the packed cathedral
Like blossoms on slow water."

SOURCE: "Casualty" (Seamus Heaney)

"Casualty" deals with death in Northern Ireland. In particular, Seamus focuses on a friend killed in one of the many internecine acts.