National Poetry Month 2017 #3. Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

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   Coming to a decision that the time is very close when another fandom chapter is about to close. 

   However perspective. 

   It's really only a social media platform, and what will keep me there for longer than it should is trying to preserve memories while I can. 

   This poem is from a book called The Nation's Favourite Poems of Remembrance; published in 2003, the year after I moved from Devon in England, to Perthshire in Scotland. 


  www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/57253


  Everyone Sang

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  BY SIEGFRIED SASSOON

 Everyone suddenly burst out singing;

 And I was filled with such delight

 As prisoned birds must find in freedom,

 Winging wildly across the white

 Orchards and dark-green fields; on - on - and out of sight.

 

 Everyone's voice was suddenly lifted;

 And beauty came like the setting sun:

 My heart was shaken with tears; and horror

 Drifted away ... O, but Everyone

 Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.

   Goddess preserve, 

   

   Kerk Hiraeth