The Road To Ruin

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  My hopes, my messengers I sent
  Across the ten years continent
  Of Time. In dream I saw them go--

  And thought, 'When they come back I'll show
  To what far place I lead my friends
  Where this disastrous decade ends.'

  Like one in purgatory, I learned
  The loss of hope. For none returned,
  And long in darkening dream I lay.
  Then came a ghost whose warning breath
  Gasped from an agony of death,
  'No, not that way; no, not that way.'

© Siegfried Sassoon