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I, too, saw God through mud

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Wilfred Owen
Age: 25 †
Born: 1893
Born: March 18
Died: 1918
Died: November 4
Poet
Writer
Oswestry
Shropshire
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen
Owen
Mud
Saws
War

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My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest, To climb your throat on sobs easily chased On other sighs and wiped by fresher winds.
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I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.
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Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland.
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I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts and rusted every bayonet with His tears.
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The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth. In poetry we call them the most glorious.
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Whatever mourns when many leave these shores: Whatever shares The eternal reciprocity of tears.
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My subject is war, and the pity of war.
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Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
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The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the sweet murder Dealt slow and even Unto the martyr Smiling at heaven: It is the smile Faint as a (waning) myth, Faint, and exceeding small On a boy's murdered mouth.
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So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went.
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Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.
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I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense conciliatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.
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After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
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Heart, you were never hot Nor large, nor full like hearts made great with shot
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I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's
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The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold.
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And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
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Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
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