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lirik lagu 1916 seen from 1921 by edmund blunden - the war poetry society

tired with dull grief, grown old before my day
i sit in solitude and only hear
long silent laughters, murmurings of dismay
the lost intensities of hope and fear;
in those old marshes yet the rifles lie
on the thin breastwork flutter the grey rags
the very books i read are there—and i
dead as the men i loved, wait while life drags

its wounded length from those sad streets of war
into green places here, that were my own;
but now what once was mine is mine no more
i seek such neighbours here and i find none
with such strong gentleness and tireless will
those ruined houses seared themselves in me
passionate i look for their dumb story still
and the charred stub outspeaks the living tree

i rise up at the singing of a bird
and scarcely knowing slink along the lane
i dare not give a soul a look or word
where all have homes and none’s at home in vain:
deep red the rose burned in the grim redoubt
the self~sown wheat around was like a flood
in the hot path the lizard lolled time out
the saints in broken shrines were bright as blood
sweet mary’s shrine between the sycamores!
there we would go, my friend of friends and i
and sn~tch long moments from the grudging wars
whose dark made light intense to see them by
shrewd bit the morning fog, the whining shots
spun from the wrangling wire: then in warm swoon
the sun hushed all but the cool orchard plots
we crept in the tall grass and slept till noon

- lirik lagu 1916 seen from 1921 by edmund blunden

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