Alone

Portrait of Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon 1886–1967

I've listened: and all the sounds I heard Were music,-wind, and stream, and bird. With youth who sang from hill to hill I've listened: my heart is hungry still.

I've looked: the morning world was green; Bright roofs and towers of town I've seen; And stars, wheeling through wingless night. I've looked: and my soul yet longs for light.

I've thought: but in my sense survives Only the impulse of those lives That were my making. Hear me say 'I've thought!'-and darkness hides my day.

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