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" Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled,
And one arm bent across your sullen cold
Exhausted face? It hurts my heart to watch you,
Deep-shadow'd from the candle's guttering gold;
And you wonder why I shake you by the shoulder;
Drowsy, you mumble and sigh and turn your head....
You are too young to fall asleep for ever;
And when you sleep you remind me of the dead.
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Siegfried Sassoon , The War Poems


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Siegfried Sassoon quote : Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled,<br />And one arm bent across your sullen cold<br />Exhausted face? It hurts my heart to watch you,<br />Deep-shadow'd from the candle's guttering gold;<br />And you wonder why I shake you by the shoulder;<br />Drowsy, you mumble and sigh and turn your head....<br /><i>You are too young to fall asleep for ever;<br />And when you sleep you remind me of the dead.</i>