British Heavy Cavalry

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    “The earth is mankind’s ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it’s as though one of God’s cheques has bounced.”
    —Gilbert Adair, British author, critic. quoted in: London Sunday Correspondent Magazine (Dec. 24, 1989)

    “The heavy trees,
    The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust,
    The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines
    Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “To fight aloud is very brave,
    But gallanter I know,
    Who charge within the bosom
    The Cavalry of Woe.”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)