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Sassoon, Siegfried - Survivors
Identifier
013103
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Richard Nevinson - La Patrie
A description of the experience
Survivors
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 shatterd all their pride...
Men who went out to battle, grim and glad;
Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad.