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FRANCE by SIEGFRIED SASSOON

Poet Analysis

First Line: SHE TRIUMPHS, IN THE VIVID GREEN
Last Line: VOICES OF VICTORY AND DELIGHT.
Subject(s): FRANCE; SOLDIERS' WRITINGS; WORLD WAR I; FIRST WORLD WAR;
SHE triumphs, in the vivid green
Where sun and quivering foliage meet;
And in each soldier's heart serene;
When death stood near them they have seen
The radiant forests where her feet
Move on a breeze of silver sheen.

And they are fortunate, who fight
For gleaming landscapes swept and shafted
And crowned by cloud pavilions white;
Hearing such harmonies as might
Only from Heaven be downward wafted --
Voices of victory and delight.




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