Philip Larkin: "MCMXVIV"

(photographs of the 1914 christmas armistice 
and a preparation of a british attack in mons)







"[...] Never such innocence,

Never before or since,
As changed itself to past
Without a word--the men
Leaving the gardens tidy,
The thousands of marriages,
Lasting a little while longer:
Never such innocence again."

(quoted in tony judt's "reapprisals")





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