Highfield High School

Battlefields Visit to Northern France and Belgium 2003

FRANCE

By Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

She triumphs, in the vivid green

Where sun and quivering foliage meet;

And in each soldier’s heart serene;

When death stood near them they have seen

The radiant forests where her feet

Move on a breeze of silver sheen.

And they are fortunate, who fight

For gleaming landscapes swept and shafted

And crowned by  cloud pavilions white;

Hearing such harmonies as might

Only from heaven be downward wafted

Voices of victory and delight.

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