<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519026" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Road</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The road is thronged with women; soldiers pass <br>And halt, but never see them; yet they’re here— <br>A patient crowd along the sodden grass, <br>Silent, worn out with waiting, sick with fear. <br>The road goes crawling up a long hillside,<br>All ruts and stones and sludge, and the emptied dregs <br>Of battle thrown in heaps. Here where they died <br>Are stretched big-bellied horses with stiff legs, <br>And dead men, bloody-fingered from the fight, <br>Stare up at caverned darkness winking white.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You in the bomb-scorched kilt, poor sprawling Jock, <br>You tottered here and fell, and stumbled on, <br>Half dazed for want of sleep. No dream would mock <br>Your reeling brain with comforts lost and gone. <br>You did not feel her arms about your knees,<br>Her blind caress, her lips upon your head. <br>Too tired for thoughts of home and love and ease, <br>The road would serve you well enough for bed.</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=519026" data-title="The Road de Siegfried Sassoon" data-description="The road is thronged with women; soldiers pass And halt, but never see them; yet they’re here— A patient crowd along the sodden grass, Silent, worn out with waiting, sick with fear. The road goes crawling up a long hillside, All ruts and s..."></div> </div> </div>

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