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.
(In Barracks)
More Quotes from Siegfried Sassoon:
In the starkDanger of life at war, they lie so still,
All prostrate and defenceless, head by head.
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O Christ, and what's the good?
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You love us when we're heroes, home on leave,
Or wounded in a mentionable place.
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And life is just the picture dancing on a screen.
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Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.
Siegfried Sassoon
Well, how are things in Heaven?
Siegfried Sassoon
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