When I'm among a blaze of lights

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Title:     When I'm among a blaze of lights
Author: Siegfried Sassoon [More Titles by Sassoon]

When I'm among a blaze of lights,
With tawdry music and cigars
And women dawdling through delights,
And officers at cocktail bars,--
Sometimes I think of garden nights
And elm trees nodding at the stars.

I dream of a small firelit room
With yellow candles burning straight,
And glowing pictures in the gloom,
And kindly books that hold me late.
Of things like these I love to think
When I can never be alone:
Then some one says, "Another drink?"--
And turns my living heart to stone.

[The end]
Siegfried Sassoon's poem: When I'm among a blaze of lights

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