I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the sa… - Siegfried Sassoon
The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the sa…
- Siegfried Sassoon
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… - Siegfried Sassoon
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…
And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken. - Siegfried Sassoon
And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.
And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed. - Siegfried Sassoon
And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.
Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral. - Siegfried Sassoon
Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.
For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we … - Siegfried Sassoon
For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we …
In me the tiger sniffs the rose. - Siegfried Sassoon
In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete. - Siegfried Sassoon
The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.
I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil … - Siegfried Sassoon
I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil …
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