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ELEGY; TO ROBERT ROSS by SIEGFRIED SASSOON

Poet Analysis

First Line: YOUR DEXTROUS WIT WILL HAUNT US LONG
Last Line: O HEART OF HEARTS! ... O FRIEND OF FRIENDS!
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;

YOUR dextrous wit will haunt us long
Wounding our grief with yesterday.
Your laughter is a broken song;
And death has found you, kind and gay.

We may forget those transient things
That made your charm and our delight:
But loyal love has deathless wings
That rise and triumph out of night.

So, in the days to come, your name
Shall be as music that ascends
When honour turns a heart from shame...
O heart of hearts! ... O friend of friends!




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