<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518899" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Aftermath</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have you forgotten yet?...<br>For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days,<br>Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city-ways:<br>And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow<br>Like clouds in the lit heaven of life; and you're a man reprieved to go,<br>Taking your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare.<br>But the past is just the same--and War's a bloody game...<br>Have you forgotten yet?...<br>Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you'll never forget.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz--<br>The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets?<br>Do you remember the rats; and the stench<br>Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench--<br>And dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain?<br>Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you remember that hour of din before the attack--<br>And the anger, the blind compassion that seized and shook you then<br>As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men?<br>Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back<br>With dying eyes and lolling heads--those ashen-grey<br>Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have you forgotten yet?...<br>Look up, and swear by the green of the spring that you'll never forget.</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=518899" data-title="Aftermath de Siegfried Sassoon" data-description="Have you forgotten yet?... For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days, Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city-ways: And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow Like clouds in the lit heaven o..."></div> </div> </div>

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