"In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking. ... I saw the dead stretched out under me in the earth, feeding these flowers with a thin milk drawn from their bones."

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Source : Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

Rosamond Lehmann

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