[Sundae]

I will go back and read that, chick.
I like Oliver Goldsmith.
In fact may print it out - I don't know why, but I've never got on with longer poems on-screen.
Even the short ones I like I feel I need to print - there is something about having them physically.

This one has been in my head during this snowy week, purely for the line "As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack" because walking over sheet ice felt like slogging (melodramatic on my part of course!)

The General

"Good-morning; good-morning!" the General said
When we met him last week on our way to the line.
Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of ’em dead,
And we’re cursing his staff for incompetent swine.
"He’s a cheery old card," grunted Harry to Jack
As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack.

But he did for them both by his plan of attack.

Sigfried Sassoon