Nostalgia Fall 2014 Eavan Boland When the cobbler shop closed in our village with a hand-written note in the window and an apology on a wintry evening, while crows sat with big shoulders, their backs turned in the last shiver of light, I was driven not to elegy but etymology: Ceapail perhaps, meaning binding or fettering? Klabba from the Swedish? More likely cobolere, to mend ..