When his flag-draped coffin moved slowly across the old capital, drawn by naval ratings, and bare-headed Londoners stood trembling in the cold, they mourned, not only him and all he had meant, but all they had been and no longer were, and would never be again.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
And would never be again
From William Manchester's The Last Lion.
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