Edgar Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967). Counter-Attack and Other Poems. 1918.
19. Their Frailty
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War’s fine and bold and bright.
She can forget the doomed and prisoned men
Who agonize and fight.
And peril of his plight,
Beseeching Heaven to send him home again,
She prays for peace each night.
They die; War bleeds us white
Mothers and wives and sweethearts,—they don’t care
So long as He’s all right.