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TO MY BROTHER by SIEGFRIED SASSOON

Poet Analysis

First Line: GIVE ME YOUR HAND, MY BROTHER, SEARCH MY FACE
Last Line: AND THROUGH YOUR VICTORY I SHALL WIN THE LIGHT.
Subject(s): SOLDIERS' WRITINGS; WORLD WAR I; FIRST WORLD WAR;

GIVE me your hand, my brother, search my face;
Look in these eyes lest I should think of shame;
For we have made an end of all things base.
We are returning by the road we came.

Your lot is with the ghosts of soldiers dead,
And I am in the field where men must fight.
But in the gloom I see your laurell'd head
And through your victory I shall win the light.




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