Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967). The Old Huntsman and Other Poems. 1918.

9. A Mystic as Soldier

I LIVED my days apart,

Dreaming fair songs for God;

By the glory in my heart

Covered and crowned and shod.

Now God is in the strife,

And I must seek Him there,

Where death outnumbers life,

And fury smites the air.

I walk the secret way

With anger in my brain.

O music through my clay,

When will you sound again?