The Soldier (poem)
"The Soldier" is a poem written by Rupert Brooke. The poem is the fifth of a series of poems entitled 1914.
It is often contrasted with Wilfred Owen's 1917 antiwar poem Dulce Et Decorum Est
The manuscript is located at King's College, Cambridge.
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“‘Stay—stay with us!—rest—thou art
weary and worn!’—
And fain was their war-broken soldier to stay;—
But sorrow return’d with the dawning of morn,
And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away.”
—Thomas Campbell (1774–1844)