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    The poem reflects on how classical music brought the poet dreams and inspiration, but now provides no comfort remembering friends who died in war. Ragtime music briefly allows their ghosts to return, but then the poet is alone once more with the loss. Siegfried Sassoon was a renowned English poet, soldier, and author born in 1886 who served bravely in the trenches of WWI despite bringing poetry to read during downtime. He died of cancer just before his 81st birthday in 1967.

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    The poem reflects on how classical music brought the poet dreams and inspiration, but now provides no comfort remembering friends who died in war. Ragtime music briefly allows their ghosts to return, but then the poet is alone once more with the loss. Siegfried Sassoon was a renowned English poet, soldier, and author born in 1886 who served bravely in the trenches of WWI despite bringing poetry to read during downtime. He died of cancer just before his 81st birthday in 1967.

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    Dead Musicians

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    The poem reflects on how classical music brought the poet dreams and inspiration, but now provides no comfort remembering friends who died in war. Ragtime music briefly allows their ghosts to return, but then the poet is alone once more with the loss. Siegfried Sassoon was a renowned English poet, soldier, and author born in 1886 who served bravely in the trenches of WWI despite bringing poetry to read during downtime. He died of cancer just before his 81st birthday in 1967.

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    From you, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart,  Your fugues and symphonies have brought 
    The substance of my dreams took fire.  No memory of my friends who died. 
    You built cathedrals in my heart, 
    For when my brain is on their track, 
    And lit my pinnacled desire. 
    In slangy speech I call them back. 
    You were the ardour and the bright
    With fox-trot tunes their ghosts I charm. 
    Procession of my thoughts toward prayer. 
    ‘Another little drink won’t do us any harm.’
    You were the wrath of storm, the light 
    I think of ragtime; a bit of ragtime; 
    On distant citadels aflare. 
    And see their faces crowding round 
    To the sound of the syncopated beat. 
    Great names, I cannot find you now 
    They’ve got such jolly things to tell, 
    In these loud years of youth that strives 
    Home from hell with a Blighty wound so neat... 
    Through doom toward peace: upon my brow 
    I wear a wreath of banished lives. 
    And so the song breaks off; and I’m alone. 
    You have no part with lads who fought 
    They’re dead ... For God’s sake stop that gramophone.
    And laughed and suffered at my side. 

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