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No doubt they'll soon get well; the shock and strain
Have caused their stammering, disconnected talk.
Of course they're 'longing to go out again,' —
These boys with old, scared faces, learning to walk.
They'll soon forget their haunted nights; their cowed
Subjection to the ghosts of friends who died,—
Their dreams that drip with murder; and they'll be proud
Of glorious war that shatter'd all their pride...
Men who went out to battle, grim and glad;
Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad.
Siegfried Sassoon-(1886-1967)
Craiglockhart. October, 1917.
Addendum
*- I would like to thank Hugh Parker & Charles Mosca, my Grandfathers who served in World War Two. One army, one Navy- one Europe, one the Pacific.
One taught me courage with a smile, the other that strength is often very quiet.
No doubt they'll soon get well; the shock and strain
Have caused their stammering, disconnected talk.
Of course they're 'longing to go out again,' —
These boys with old, scared faces, learning to walk.
They'll soon forget their haunted nights; their cowed
Subjection to the ghosts of friends who died,—
Their dreams that drip with murder; and they'll be proud
Of glorious war that shatter'd all their pride...
Men who went out to battle, grim and glad;
Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad.
Siegfried Sassoon-(1886-1967)
Craiglockhart. October, 1917.
Addendum
*- I would like to thank Hugh Parker & Charles Mosca, my Grandfathers who served in World War Two. One army, one Navy- one Europe, one the Pacific.
One taught me courage with a smile, the other that strength is often very quiet.