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Siegfried Sassoon Quotes

1886–1967 England

Siegfried Sassoon (September 8, 1886 – September 1, 1967) was a British poet and writer, best remembered for the poems he wrote as a soldier in World War I. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War.

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Also known as: Sassoon, Siegfried

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Deep in my morning time he made his mark
And still he comes uncalled to be my guide
In devastated regions
When the brain has lost its bearings in the dark
And broken in it’s body’s pride
In the long campaign to which it had sworn allegiance.

Collected Poems (1949)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Siegfried Sassoon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.