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DREAM-FOREST by SIEGFRIED SASSOON

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First Line: WHERE SUNSHINE FLECKS THE GREEN
Last Line: THE TANGLED THICKETS LONELY.
Subject(s): SOLDIERS' WRITINGS;
WHERE sunshine flecks the green,
Through towering woods my way
Goes winding all the day.

Scant are the flowers that bloom
Beneath the bosky screen
And cage of golden gloom.
Few are the birds that call,
Shrill-voiced and seldom seen.

Where silence masters all,
And light my footsteps fall,
The whispering runnels only
With blazing noon confer;
And comes no breeze to stir
The tangled thickets lonely.




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