Wounded and missing" — (That's the thing to do When lads are left in shell-holes dying slow, With nothing but blank sky and wounds that ache, Moaning for water till they know It's night, and then it's not worth while to wake!) Good-bye, old lad! Counter-attack: And Other Poems - Page 41by Siegfried Sassoon - 1918 - 63 pagesFull view - About this book
| Siegfried Sassoon - World War, 1914-1918 - 1918 - 78 pages
...Three years. . . . It's hell unless we break their So when they told me you'd been left for dead line. I wouldn't believe them, feeling it must be true....Next week the bloody Roll of Honour said "Wounded and missing"—(That's the thing to do When lads are left in shell-holes dying slow, With nothing but blank... | |
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