Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ELEGY; TO ROBERT ROSS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON


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First Line: Your dextrous wit will haunt us long
Last Line: O heart of hearts! ... O friend of friends!
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


YOUR dextrous wit will haunt us long
Wounding our grief with yesterday.
Your laughter is a broken song;
And death has found you, kind and gay.

We may forget those transient things
That made your charm and our delight:
But loyal love has deathless wings
That rise and triumph out of night.

So, in the days to come, your name
Shall be as music that ascends
When honour turns a heart from shame...
O heart of hearts! ... O friend of friends!






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