The Dug-Out

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Title:     The Dug-Out
Author: Siegfried Sassoon [More Titles by Sassoon]

Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled,
And one arm bent across your sullen cold
Exhausted face? It hurts my heart to watch you,
Deep-shadow'd from the candle's guttering gold;
And you wonder why I shake you by the shoulder;
Drowsy, you mumble and sigh and turn your head....
_You are too young to fall asleep for ever;
And when you sleep you remind me of the dead._

[The end]
Siegfried Sassoon's poem: Dug-Out

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