Suicide in the trenches

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Title:     Suicide in the trenches
Author: Siegfried Sassoon [More Titles by Sassoon]

I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.

In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
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You snug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.

-THE END-
Siegfried Sassoon's poem: Suicide in the trenches

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