There's such splendid work for the blind; And people will always be kind,
As you sit on the terrace remembering
And turning your face to the light.
Sassoon's poetry, like that of Owen and Edward Thomas, or the memoirs of Robert Graves and Edmund Blunden, affirms its authority through the tense meeting of duty and doubt. Above all, we value it, almost a century on, as the work of a man who was there, as something beautifully crafted, coolly observant and morally irrefutable.
from The Guardian: In the line of fire
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