France

Portrait of Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon 1886–1967

She triumphs, in the vivid green Where sun and quivering foliage meet; And in each soldier's heart serene; When death stood near them they have seen The radiant forests where her feet Move on a breeze of silver sheen.

And they are fortunate, who fight For gleaming landscapes swept and shafted And crowned by cloud pavilions white; Hearing such harmonies as might Only from Heaven be downward wafted- Voices of victory and delight.

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