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A MYSTIC AS SOLDIER by SIEGFRIED SASSOON

Poet Analysis

First Line: I LIVED MY DAYS APART
Last Line: WHEN WILL YOU SOUND AGAIN?
Subject(s): SOLDIERS' WRITINGS; WORLD WAR I; FIRST WORLD WAR;
I LIVED my days apart,
Dreaming fair songs for God;
By the glory in my heart
Covered and crowned and shod.

Now God is in the strife,
And I must seek Him there,
Where death outnumbers life,
And fury smites the air.

I walk the secret way
With anger in my brain.
O music through my clay,
When will you sound again?




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