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05/18/2003 Entry: "God in Battle"

A previously unpublished poem by Siegfried Sassoon has been discovered recently. I just heard it on the radio and, though I'm not usually much of a lad for poems and stuff, I found it moving and thought I'd share it.

GOD IN BATTLE I moved in a vast night of gloom & fire, Gazing across the battle-blasted plain: Low on the black horizon burned the pyre, - The crimson fluttering pyre of mortal pain.

I thought, 'The men who're crouching in that show Are crying on God to make their burdens less: And some of them are praying still to know A little of His ancient tenderness.'

September 1918