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Lamentations

I found him in the guard-room at the Base.   From the blind darkness I had heard his crying   And blundered in.

With puzzled, patient face   A sergeant watched him; it was no good trying   To stop it; for he howled and beat his chest.

And, all because his brother had gone west,   Raved at the bleeding war; his rampant grief   Moaned, shouted, sobbed, and choked, while he was kneeling   Half-naked on the floor.

In my belief   Such men have lost all patriotic feeling.

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Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the …

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