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Sassoon, Siegfried - Everyone sang
Identifier
013105
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Paul Nash - On the Memin Road
A description of the experience
Everyone Sang
Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filled with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom,
Winging wildly across the white
Orchards and dark-green fields; on - on - and out of sight.
Everyone's voice was suddenly lifted;
And beauty came like the setting sun:
My heart was shaken with tears; and horror
Drifted away... O, but Everyone
Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will
never be done.