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The song was wordless; the singing will never be done.
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Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.
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The visionless officialized fatuity
That once kept Europe safe for Perpetuity.
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I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.
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You are too young to fall asleep for ever;
And when you sleep you remind me of the dead.
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And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.
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Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filled with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom.
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Life for the majority of the population.
Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds.
Culminating in a cheap funeral.
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O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.
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Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight.
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If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,
I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,
And speed glum heroes up the line of death.
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And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad
Unless they lose control of ugly thoughts
That drive them out to jabber among the trees.
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Lost in a blurred confusion of yells and groans...
Down, and down, and down, he sank and drowned,
Bleeding to death. The counter-attack had failed.
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But the past is just the same, – and War's a bloody game...
Have you forgotten yet?...
Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you'll never forget.
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You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
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In 1917 I was only beginning to learn that life, for the majority of the population, is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds, culminating in a cheap funeral.
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Soldiers are sworn to action; they must win
Some flaming, fatal climax with their lives.
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin
They think of firelit homes, clean beds and wives.
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Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
In the great hour of destiny they stand,
Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows.
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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.
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I'd like to see a Tank come down the stalls,
Lurching to rag-time tunes, or 'Home, sweet Home',—
And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls
To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.
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Does it matter?—losing your sight?…
There's such splendid work for the blind;
And people will always be kind,
As you sit on the terrace remembering
And turning your face to the light.
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Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
Meg Wheatley
Siegfried Sassoon
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Born:
September 8, 1886
Died:
September 1, 1967
(aged 80)
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