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WRAITHS by SIEGFRIED SASSOON

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First Line: THEY KNOW NOT THE GREEN LEAVES
Last Line: GROPES ON THE SHUTTER'D PANE!)

THEY know not the green leaves;
In whose earth-haunting dream
Dimly the forest heaves,
And voiceless goes the stream.
Strangely they seek a place
In love's night-memoried hall;
Peering from face to face,
Until some heart shall call
And keep them, for a breath,
Half-mortal ... (Hark to the rain!)...
They are dead ... (O hear how death
Gropes on the shutter'd pane!)




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