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I've watched the Seasons passing slow, so slow,
In the fields between La BassŽe and BŽthune;
Primroses and the first warm day of Spring,
Red poppy floods of June,
August, and yellowing Autumn, so
To Winter nights knee-deep in mud or snow,
And you've been everything,
Dear, you've been everything that I most lack
In these soul-deadening trenches---pictures, books,
Music, the quiet of an English wood,
Beautiful comrade-looks,
The narrow, bouldered mountain-track,
The broad, full-bosomed ocean, green and black,
And Peace, and all that's good.

Identifier

3389.txt

Creator

Graves, Robert (1895-1985)

Date

(1995, 1997, 1999)

Date Created

1997-01-01

Temporal Coverage

1999-12-31

Type

Poem

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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