<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518992" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Song-Books of the War</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In fifty years, when peace outshines<br>Remembrance of the battle lines,<br>Adventurous lads will sigh and cast<br>Proud looks upon the plundered past.<br>On summer morn or winter's night,<br>Their hearts will kindle for the fight,<br>Reading a snatch of soldier-song,<br>Savage and jaunty, fierce and strong;<br>And through the angry marching rhymes<br>Of blind regret and haggard mirth,<br>They'll envy us the dazzling times<br>When sacrifice absolved our earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some ancient man with silver locks<br>Will lift his weary face to say:<br>'War was a fiend who stopped our clocks<br>Although we met him grim and gay.'<br>And then he'll speak of Haig's last drive,<br>Marvelling that any came alive<br>Out of the shambles that men built<br>And smashed, to cleanse the world of guilt.<br>But the boys, with grin and sidelong glance,<br>Will think, 'Poor grandad's day is done.'<br>And dream of lads who fought in France<br>And lived in time to share the fun.</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=518992" data-title="Song-Books of the War de Siegfried Sassoon" data-description="In fifty years, when peace outshines Remembrance of the battle lines, Adventurous lads will sigh and cast Proud looks upon the plundered past. On summer morn or winter's night, Their hearts will kindle for the fight, Reading a snatch of soldier-so..."></div> </div> </div>

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