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Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon, one of the foremost poetic voices of the First World War, was born in Kent, England, in 1886. His father, Alfred, was a Jewish banker who had married an aristocrat and sculptor named Theresa

Alone

by Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)

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I've listened: and all the sounds I heard

Were music,—wind, and stream, and bird.

With youth who sang from hill to hill

I've listened: my heart is hungry still.

I've looked: the morning world was green;

Bright roofs and towers of town I've seen;

And stars, wheeling through wingless night.

I've looked: and my soul yet longs for light.

I've thought: but in my sense survives

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