“Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filled with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

"Everyone Sang" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57253/everyone-sang (1919)

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English poet, diarist and memoirist 1886–1967

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“Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filled with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom.”