The trouble about soldiers in Mr. Siegfried Sassoon's poetry ... is that they are the kind of people who in a railroad train have
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But the past is just the same,--and War's a bloody game. . . .
Have you forgotten yet? . . . ...
Have you forgotten yet? . . . ...
Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back
With dying eyes and lolling heads, those ashen-gray ...
With dying eyes and lolling heads, those ashen-gray ...
And when the war is done and youth stone dead,
I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.
I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,
I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, ...
I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, ...
And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls
To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.
To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.
Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows.
Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows.
mocked by hopeless longing to regain
Bank-holidays, and picture shows, and spats,
And going to the office in the train.
Bank-holidays, and picture shows, and spats,
And going to the office in the train.
Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land.
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O, but Everyone
Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be
done.
Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be
done.
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