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Siegfried Sassoon - Two Hundred Years After
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Trudging by Corbie Ridge one winter`s night,
(Unless old hearsay memories tricked his sight)
Along the pallid edge of the quiet sky
He watched a nosing lorry grinding on,
And straggling files of men; when these were gone,
A double limber and six mules went by,
Hauling the rations up through ruts and mud
To trench-lines digged two hundred years ago.
Then darkness hid them with a rainy scud,
And soon he saw the village lights below.

But when he`d told his tale, an old man said
That he`d seen soldiers pass along that hill;
`Poor silent things, they were the English dead
Who came to fight in France and got their fill.`
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