Siegfried Sassoon, 'A Dream'

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Cross-post from war_poetry:

A Dream

I met a stranger on the brink of sleep:
Hooded he stood, whose eyes acknowledged sorrow.
He wrote across the darkness of my mind
One word, Tomorrow .

Through dream we went. Our way was cragged and steep,
And what the future told we might not find.
Then in that face which I had thought unknown
I recognised my own.

"Stranger," I said, "since you and I are one,
"Let us go back. Let us undo what's done."

by Siegfried Sassoon