“Lost in a blurred confusion of yells and groans…
Down, and down, and down, he sank and drowned,
Bleeding to death. The counter-attack had failed.”

—  Siegfried Sassoon

"Counter-Attack"
The Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918)

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English poet, diarist and memoirist 1886–1967

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