“Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin
They think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.”

—  Siegfried Sassoon

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

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English poet, diarist and memoirist 1886–1967

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