7/16/15

The Last Paragraph of Philip Larkin's A Girl in Winter



The Last Paragraph of Philip Larkin's A Girl in Winter



Yet their passage was not saddening. Unsatisfied dreams rose and fell about them, crying out against their implacability, but in the end glad that such order, such destiny, existed. Against this knowledge, the heart, the will, and all that made for protest, could at last sleep.