wolfinthewood: Wolf's head in relief from romanesque tympanum at Kilpeck, Herefordshire (Default)
wolfinthewood ([personal profile] wolfinthewood) wrote2017-07-07 11:43 am

Where ignorant armies clash by night

Matthew Arnold anticipates Twitter:

And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

from ‘Dover Beach’ (1851)