Earle Birney Quote

We French, we English, never lost our civil war,
endure it still, a bloodless civil bore;
no wounded lying about, no Whitman wanted.
It's only by our lack of ghosts we're haunted.


'Can.Lit.' (1962)


We French, we English, never lost our civil war, endure it still, a bloodless civil bore; no wounded lying about, no Whitman wanted. It's only by our ...

We French, we English, never lost our civil war, endure it still, a bloodless civil bore; no wounded lying about, no Whitman wanted. It's only by our ...

We French, we English, never lost our civil war, endure it still, a bloodless civil bore; no wounded lying about, no Whitman wanted. It's only by our ...

We French, we English, never lost our civil war, endure it still, a bloodless civil bore; no wounded lying about, no Whitman wanted. It's only by our ...