Quotation by Philip Larkin

children frowned
At something dull; fathers had never known

Success so huge and wholly farcical;
The women shared
The secret like a happy funeral;
Philip Larkin (1922–1985), British poet. The Whitsun Weddings (l. 49–53). . .

Collected Poems of Philip Larkin. Anthony Thwaite, ed. (1988) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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