<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519047" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Two Hundred Years After</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trudging by Corbie Ridge one winter's night,<br>(Unless old hearsay memories tricked his sight)<br>Along the pallid edge of the quiet sky<br>He watched a nosing lorry grinding on,<br>And straggling files of men; when these were gone,<br>A double limber and six mules went by,<br>Hauling the rations up through ruts and mud<br>To trench-lines digged two hundred years ago.<br>Then darkness hid them with a rainy scud,<br>And soon he saw the village lights below.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when he'd told his tale, an old man said<br>That he'd seen soldiers pass along that hill;<br>'Poor silent things, they were the English dead<br>Who came to fight in France and got their fill.'</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=519047" data-title="Two Hundred Years After de Siegfried Sassoon" data-description="Trudging by Corbie Ridge one winter's night, (Unless old hearsay memories tricked his sight) Along the pallid edge of the quiet sky He watched a nosing lorry grinding on, And straggling files of men; when these were gone, A double limber and six m..."></div> </div> </div>

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