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Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen was born on March 18th, 1893, in Shropshire to a family of very modest means, the oldest of three sons and one daughter. His father worked for the railway, and his mother was pious and thrifty

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by Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

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He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,

And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey,

Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park

Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn,

Voices of play and pleasure after day,

Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him.

 About this time Town used to swing so gay 
 When glow-lamps budded in the light blue trees, 
 And girls glanced lovelier as the air grew dim,— 

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