In conclusion …

… Last lines on Brexit from Geoffrey Hill | The Spectator. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Hill’s deep thought about British politics — specifically, English politics — has always been evident, from the earliest days of his career, and his interest has not wavered, and it is ironically fitting, in a way, that his own demise may well have happened at a time when the very Union may be beginning to unravel. You want his thoughts on Brexit? You won’t like them. ‘In the impending referendum I shall vote to remain,’ he announces, despite the fact that in his collection Canaan he ‘derided the Maastricht Treaty as an international corporate fraud./ The alternative now is an England of rotten boroughs and Hobbits maudits’.