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Siegfried Sassoon - I Stood With The Dead
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I Stood with the Dead, so forsaken and still:
When dawn was grey I stood with the Dead. 
And my slow heart said, `You must kill, you must kill:
`Soldier, soldier, morning is red`.

On the shapes of the slain in their crumpled disgrace
I stared for a while through the thin cold rain… 
`O lad that I loved, there is rain on your face,
`And your eyes are blurred and sick like the plain.`

I stood with the Dead… They were dead; they were dead;
My heart and my head beat a march of dismay: 
And gusts of the wind came dulled by the guns.
`Fall in!` I shouted; `Fall in for your pay!`
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