The Fathers
Siegfried Sassoon
1886 to 1967
Track 1
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My boy's quite broken-hearted, stuck
Before they bolt across the Rhine."
Still, if there's truth in what we hear,
Gross, goggle-eyed, and full of chat.
These impotent old friends of mine.
In England training all this year.
At Arras with his nine-inch gun."
I watched them toddle through the door—
The Huns intend to ask for more
But Arthur's getting all the fun
Writes cheery letters from Bagdad.
Snug at the club two fathers sat,
One of them said; "My eldest lad
"Yes," wheezed the other, "that's the luck!
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