“You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.”

—  Siegfried Sassoon

"Suicide in the Trenches"
The Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918)

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English poet, diarist and memoirist 1886–1967

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