<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-kerning: none">Aftermath</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-kerning: none">Have you forgotten yet?...<br>
For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days,<br>
Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city-ways:<br>
And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow<br>
Like clouds in the lit heaven of life; and you're a man reprieved to go,<br>
Taking your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare.<br>
But the past is just the same--and War's a bloody game...<br>
Have you forgotten yet?...<br>
Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you'll never forget.<br>
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Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz--<br>
The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets?<br>
Do you remember the rats; and the stench<br>
Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench--<br>
And dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain?<br>
Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?'<br>
<br>
Do you remember that hour of din before the attack--<br>
And the anger, the blind compassion that seized and shook you then<br>
As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men?<br>
Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back<br>
With dying eyes and lolling heads--those ashen-grey<br>
Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay?<br>
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Have you forgotten yet?...<br>
Look up, and swear by the green of the spring that you’ll never forget. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Siegfried Sassoon</span></p></div></body></html>