I too have longed for children.
(To A Childless Woman)
More Quotes from Siegfried Sassoon:
The sun looks over the barrack gate,Warm and white with glaring shine,
To watch the soldiers of the Line
That life has hired to fight with fate.
Siegfried Sassoon
O thrilling sweet, my joy, when life was free
And all the paths led on from hawthorn-time
Across the carolling meadows into June.
Siegfried Sassoon
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.
Siegfried Sassoon
And when the war is done and youth stone dead; I'd toddle safely home and die - in bed.
Siegfried Sassoon
Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
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 and unjust.
Siegfried Sassoon
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