Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Because We Are Going Comments

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Because we are going from our wonted places
To be task-ridden by one shattering Aim,
And terror hides in all our laughing faces
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Siegfried Sassoon
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EVENS 22 March 2018

Is it correct that this poem was not found until 2004? That would account for it not appearing in any of the books of his published poems It was, I think, written in 1915, before Sassoon went to France, hence the title.

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Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon

Kent / England
Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon
Kent / England
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