The years will not answer for what they have done, that much is certain. There is no shaking them, we might have foreseen this but refused. (Geoffrey Hill)

The years will not answer for what they have done, that much is certain. There is no shaking them, we might have foreseen this but refused.

Geoffrey Hill

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