“Its wounded length from those sad streets of war
Into green places here, that were my own;
But now what once was mine is mine no more,
I seek such neighbours here and I find none.
With such strong gentleness and tireless will
Those ruined houses seared themselves in me,
Passionate I look for their dumb story still,
And the charred stub outspeaks the living tree.”

— Edmund Blunden

Festubert, 1916 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57255/festubert-1916 (1921)

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English poet, author and literary critic 1896–1974

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