<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: rgb(84, 130, 53);">Dreamers</span></b><div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">by Siegfried Sassoon<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">In the great hour of destiny they stand,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Soldiers are sworn to action; they must win <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Some flaming, fatal climax with their lives.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">They think of firelit homes, clean beds and wives.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">I see them in foul dug-outs, gnawed by rats,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">And in the ruined trenches, lashed with rain, <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Dreaming of things they did with balls and bats,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">And mocked by hopeless longing to regain <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Bank-holidays, and picture shows, and spats,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 30pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">And going to the office in the train.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 30pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">————————————————</p></div><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. 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