Siegfried Sassoon Quote

I'd say — "I used to know his father well;
Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap."
And when the war is done and youth stone dead
I'd toddle safely home and die — in bed.


"Base Details" - The Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918)


I'd say — I used to know his father well; Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap. And when the war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle...

I'd say — I used to know his father well; Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap. And when the war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle...

I'd say — I used to know his father well; Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap. And when the war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle...

I'd say — I used to know his father well; Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap. And when the war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle...