Siegfried Sassoon one of my favourite poets
"I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
in winter trenches cowed and glum
with crumps lice & lack of rum
put a bullet through his brain"

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