Saturday, November 17, 2007

A Code Poem For The French Resistance

The life that I have is all that I have
And the life that I have is yours.
The love that I have of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.
A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have,
Yet death will be but a pause,
For the peace of my years in the long green grass
Will be yours and yours and yours.
-- Leo Marks
This poem said to be used by a World war II spy called Viollete Szabo. The poet Leo Marks was the head of the espionage cryptography wing of SOE in WWII. This simple poem had a role in changing the history of the world. So i felt it might be of interest.
Sabith

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