Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967). The Old Huntsman and Other Poems. 1918.
50. An Old French Poet
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In sight and sound of things beloved, woodland and stream,
And the green turf has hidden the poor bones ye deem
No more a close companion with those rhymes we made;
Thinking them for the while my voice, so let them seem
A fading message from the misty shores of dream,
Or wheresoever, following Death, my feet have strayed.