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 to death.
More Quotes from Siegfried Sassoon:
I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.Siegfried Sassoon
By God, it might be Heaven!
Siegfried Sassoon
You love us when we're heroes, home on leave,
Or wounded in a mentionable place.
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Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
Siegfried Sassoon
Yet these, who cling to life with stubborn hands,
Can grin through storms of death and find a gap
In the clawed, cruel tangles of his defence.
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Well, how are things in Heaven?
Siegfried Sassoon
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