No doubt they'll soon get well; the shock and strain
Have caused their stammering, disconnected talk.
Of course they're “longing to go out again,”-
These boys with old, scared faces, learning to walk,
They'll soon forget their haunted nights; their cowed
Subjection to the ghosts of friends who died,-
Their dreams that drip with murder; and they'll be proud
Of glorious war that shatter'd all their pride …
Men who went out to battle, grim and glad;
Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad.
CRAIGLOCKART,
Oct. 1917.
Survivors
Siegfried Sassoon
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Poem topics: children, hate, murder, pride, walk, war, battle, doubt, glad, broken, forget, talk, I love you, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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