<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518896" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Whispered Tale</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’d heard fool-heroes brag of where they’d been, <br>With stories of the glories that they’d seen. <br>But you, good simple soldier, seasoned well <br>In woods and posts and crater-lines of hell, <br>Who dodge remembered ‘crumps’ with wry grimace,<br>Endured experience in your queer, kind face, <br>Fatigues and vigils haunting nerve-strained eyes, <br>And both your brothers killed to make you wise; <br>You had no babbling phrases; what you said <br>Was like a message from the maimed and dead.<br>But memory brought the voice I knew, whose note <br>Was muted when they shot you in the throat; <br>And still you whisper of the war, and find <br>Sour jokes for all those horrors left behind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Siegfried+Sassoon">Siegfried Sassoon</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=518896" data-title="A Whispered Tale de Siegfried Sassoon" data-description="I’d heard fool-heroes brag of where they’d been, With stories of the glories that they’d seen. But you, good simple soldier, seasoned well In woods and posts and crater-lines of hell, Who dodge remembered ‘crumps’ with wry grimace, E..."></div> </div> </div>

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