I didn’t want to die – not before I’d finished reading The … - Siegfried Sassoon

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I didn’t want to die – not before I’d finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

Siegfried Sassoon

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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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Alternative Names: Siegfried Loraine Sassoon • Saul Kain • Pinchbeck Lyre • Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon

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All the sanguine guesswork of youth is there, and the silliness; all the novelty of being alive and impressed by the urgency of tremendous trivialities.

But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to fear The gloomy, stricken places in my soul, And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze.

Five minutes ago I heard a sniper fire: Why did he do it?… Starlight overhead — Blank stars. I'm wide-awake; and some chap's dead.

I didn’t want to die – not before I’d finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow. - Siegfried Sassoon

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