| Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920. |
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| Siegfried Sassoon. 1886– |
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| 142. To Victory |
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| RETURN to greet me, colours that were my joy, | |
| Not in the woeful crimson of men slain, | |
| But shining as a garden; come with the streaming | |
| Banners of dawn and sundown after rain. | |
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| I want to fill my gaze with blue and silver, | 5 |
| Radiance through living roses, spires of green, | |
| Rising in young-limbed copse and lovely wood, | |
| Where the hueless wind passes and cries unseen. | |
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| I am not sad; only I long for lustre,— | |
| Tired of the greys and browns and leafless ash. | 10 |
| I would have hours that move like a glitter of dancers, | |
| Far from the angry guns that boom and flash. | |
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| Return, musical, gay with blossom and fleetness, | |
| Days when my sight shall be clear and my heart rejoice; | |
| Come from the sea with breadth of approaching brightness, | 15 |
| When the blithe wind laughs on the hills with uplifted voice. | |
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