#devotion to duty

[cantgetoutofmyheda]

TFW you wake up to AO3 emails saying two of your current favorites have been updated 🥺. @slowmorevolution @thessclexa

[poniatowskaja]

Devotion to Duty - Siegfried Sassoon

I was near the King that day. I saw him snatch And briskly scan the G.H.Q. dispatch. Thick-voiced, he read it out. (His face was grave.) “This officer advanced with the first wave,

And when our first objective had been gained, (Though wounded twice), reorganized the line: The spirit of the troops was by his fine Example most effectively sustained.”

He gripped his beard; then closed his eyes and said, “Bathsheba must be warned that he is dead. Send for her. I will be the first to tell This wife how her heroic husband fell."