(TO ROBERT ROSS)
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!
Elegy
Siegfried Sassoon
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Poem topics: I love you, death, friend, grief, laughter, music, night, song, rise, long, broken, forget, delight, triumph, shame, charm, yesterday, heart, love, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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