Rosamond Lehmann Quote

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.


The Ballad and the Source (1945)


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 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 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 a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking.... I saw the dead stretched out under me...