Memorial Tablet
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| Memorial Tablet (Great War) (1918) by |
| Memorial Tablet (Great War) is a 1918 poem by the English soldier and poet Siegfried Sassoon published in The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon. — Excerpted from Memorial Tablet on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. |
Squire nagged and bullied till I went to fight,
(Under Lord Derby's scheme). I died in hell -
(They called it Passchendaele). My wound was slight,
And I was hobbling back; and then a shell
Burst slick upon the duckboards: so I fell
Into the bottomless mud, and lost the light
At sermon-time, while Squire is in his pew,
He gives my gilded name a thoughtful stare;
For, though low down upon the list, I'm there;
"In proud and glorious memory" ... that's my due.
Two bleeding years I fought in France, for Squire:
I suffered anguish that he's never guessed.
I came home on leave: and then went west...
What greater glory could a man desire?
