<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518959" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In the Pink</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">So Davies wrote: ' This leaves me in the pink. ' <br>Then scrawled his name: ' Your loving sweetheart Willie ' <br>With crosses for a hug. He'd had a drink <br>Of rum and tea; and, though the barn was chilly, <br>For once his blood ram warm; he had pay to spend, <br>Winter was passing; soon the year would mend. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He couldn't sleep that night. Stiff in the dark <br>He groaned and thought of Sundays at the farm, <br>When he'd go out as cheerful as a lark <br>In his best suit to wander arm-in-arm <br>With brown-eyed Gwen, and whisper in her ear <br>The simple, silly things she liked to hear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then he thought: to-morrow night we trudge <br>Up to the trenches, and my boots are rotten. <br>Five miles of stodgy clay and freezing sludge, <br>And everything but wretchedness forgotten. <br>To-night he's in the pink; but soon he'll die. <br>And still the war goes on; he don't know why.</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=518959" data-title="In the Pink de Siegfried Sassoon" data-description="So Davies wrote: ' This leaves me in the pink. ' Then scrawled his name: ' Your loving sweetheart Willie ' With crosses for a hug. He'd had a drink Of rum and tea; and, though the barn was chilly, For once his blood ram warm; he had pay to spe..."></div> </div> </div>

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