Commemorative Stone Town Gardens

This commemorative stone in the Town Gardens commemorates the wars of the twentieth century. It has inscribed on it part of Siegfried Sassoon's poem of 1919, 'Everyone Sang':
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 sun:
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.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Neil Owen