Poem Everyone Sang

Poem Everyone Sang

Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon 

Everyone suddenly burst out singing;

And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom,

Winging wildly across the white

Orchards and dark-green fields; on - on - and out of sight.

Everyone’s voice was suddenly lifted;

And beauty came like the setting My heart was shaken with tears; and horror Drifted away ... O, but Everyone

Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done