Craglockhart
No doubt they'll soon get well; the shock and the strain
Have caused their stammering, disconnected talk.
Of course they're 'longing to go out again'-
These boys with old, scarred faces, learning to walk.
They'll soon forget their haunted nights; their cowed
Subjection to the ghosts of friends who died,-
Their dreams that drip with murder; and they'll be proud
Of glorious war that shatter'd all their pride...
Men who went out to battle, grim and glad;
Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad.
Siegfried Sassoon, October 1917
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