<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Absolution</span></p><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><div class="poempara" style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The anguish of the earth absolves our eyes </span></div></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><div class="poempara" style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Till beauty shines in all that we can see. </span></div></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><div class="poempara" style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">War is our scourge; yet war has made us wise, </span></div></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><div class="poempara" style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And, fighting for our freedom, we are free.</span></div><div class="poempara" style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div class="poempara" style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Horror of wounds and anger at the foe, </span></div></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><div class="poempara" style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And loss of things desired; all these must pass. </span></div></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><div class="poempara" style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We are the happy legion, for we know </span></div></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><div class="poempara" style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Time's but a golden wind that shakes the grass.</span></div><div class="poempara" style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div class="poempara" style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There was an hour when we were loth to part </span></div></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><div class="poempara" style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">From life we longed to share no less than others. </span></div></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><div class="poempara" style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Now, having claimed this heritage of heart, </span></div></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><div class="poempara" style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What need we more, my comrades and my brothers?</span></div><div class="poempara" style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="poempara" style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Siegfried Sassoon</span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sent from Tehran.</span></div></body></html>