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Siegfried Sassoon - Devotion To Duty
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I was near the King that day. I saw him snatch   
And briskly scan the G.H.Q. dispatch.   
Thick-voiced, he read it out. (His face was grave.)   
‘This officer advanced with the first wave,   
   
‘And when our first objective had been gained,
‘(Though wounded twice), reorganized the line:   
‘The spirit of the troops was by his fine   
‘Example most effectively sustained.’   
   
He gripped his beard; then closed his eyes and said,   
‘Bathsheba must be warned that he is dead.
‘Send for her. I will be the first to tell   
‘This wife how her heroic husband fell.’
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