The Life That I Have…..

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Knife & Fork pending
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 life
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours and yours.

The short poem issued to SOE agent Violette Szabo in 1944 for use in her encrypted messages. She was captured and tortured by the Nazis in Occupied France. Executed at Ravensbruck concentration camp in the final days of the war. Violette was just 23 years old.
Carve Her Name With Pride.
59 female SOE agents were sent to Occupied Europe. So many of them never returned home.
 
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