<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519013" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Hero</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Jack fell as he'd have wished,' the mother said,<br>And folded up the letter that she'd read.<br>'The Colonel writes so nicely.' Something broke<br>In the tired voice that quavered to a choke.<br>She half looked up. 'We mothers are so proud<br>Of our dead soldiers.' Then her face was bowed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Quietly the Brother Officer went out.<br>He'd told the poor old dear some gallant lies<br>That she would nourish all her days, no doubt<br>For while he coughed and mumbled, her weak eyes<br>Had shone with gentle triumph, brimmed with joy,<br>Because he'd been so brave, her glorious boy. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He thought how 'Jack', cold-footed, useless swine,<br>Had panicked down the trench that night the mine<br>Went up at Wicked Corner; how he'd tried<br>To get sent home, and how, at last, he died,<br>Blown to small bits. And no one seemed to care<br>Except that lonely woman with white hair.</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=519013" data-title="The Hero de Siegfried Sassoon" data-description="'Jack fell as he'd have wished,' the mother said, And folded up the letter that she'd read. 'The Colonel writes so nicely.' Something broke In the tired voice that quavered to a choke. She half looked up. 'We mothers are so proud Of our dead soldi..."></div> </div> </div>

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