Philip Larkin's Days
What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be happy in:
Where can we live but days?
Ah, solving that question
Brings the priest and the doctor
In their long coats
Running over the fields.
"Shadows", 1887 by Charles Courtney Curran
director Ettore Scola's "A Special Day", 1977 featuring Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren