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'Good-morning; good-morning!' the General said
When we met him last week on our way to the line.
Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead,
And we're cursing his staff for incompetent swine.
'He's a cheery old card,' grunted Harry and Jack
As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack.
* * * * *
But he did for them both by his plan of attack.
The General - Siegfried Sassoon
When we met him last week on our way to the line.
Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead,
And we're cursing his staff for incompetent swine.
'He's a cheery old card,' grunted Harry and Jack
As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack.
* * * * *
But he did for them both by his plan of attack.
The General - Siegfried Sassoon
The quote from the above poem is from The First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford (www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit); © The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambride / The Siegfried Sassoon Literary Estate