There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacri...
O where are our fathers, O brothers of mine? By the graves of their fathers, awaiting a sign… The slopes of slag and cinder Are sulking in the rain And in derelict valleys The hope of youth is slain. –from Gwalia Deserta, Idris Davies (1938) Idris Davies, the coalfield’s ‘bitt...