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Siegfried Sassoon Quotes: Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain.
         

Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain.


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And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.



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The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.



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The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.



I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.



You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.



And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.



Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.



In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.



I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.



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Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.





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