Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Thought for the Day: Ivor Gurney on Cruelty of Man to Man

Not half can be written of cruelty of man, on man,

Not often such evil guessed as between man and man.


Ivor Gurney, “To God,” in Selected Poems, ed. E.J. Kavanaugh (Oxford: OUP, 1990) (p. 96).