<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414155" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lasting Peace</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They laid creeping barrage down<br> in preparation for the push.<br>It was a pearler Mrs Brown<br> and turned the battleground to mush.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The effing noise was deafening<br> and then the silence even worse.<br>I saw the sergeant beckoning<br> my fervent prayer became a curse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The first lieutenant leas us though<br> over the top into the mud<br> We had no choice we had to go<br>. Though why I’ve never understood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We couldn’t charge we had to trudge<br>There seemed to be no solid ground<br> the effing world was full of sludge <br>and if you fell you would be drowned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We over ran a German trench<br> much like the one we left behind.<br>It had the same familiar stench<br>and like our own badly designed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How I survived I do not know <br>But I got home still in one piece<br> I still feel guilty sometimes though<br>And seldom sleep the night in peace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Remember then the fighting men, <br>The men like simple Sammy Brown.<br> Who lived to see his home again<br> unlike his mates who were mown down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though Sammy lived to ninety three <br>he never could forget the past.<br>He lies In Highgate cemetery <br>his epitaph reads Peace at last.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">10-Nov-07</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414155" data-title="Lasting Peace de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="They laid creeping barrage down in preparation for the push. It was a pearler Mrs Brown and turned the battleground to mush. The effing noise was deafening and then the silence even worse. I saw the sergeant beckoning my fervent prayer became..."></div> </div> </div>

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