The Life That I Have (sometimes referred to as Yours) is a short poem written by Leo Marks and used as a poem code in the Second World War.
In the war, famous poems were used to encrypt messages. This was, however, found to be insecure because enemy cryptanalysts were able to locate the original from published sources. Marks countered this by using his own written creations. The Life That I Have was an original poem composed on Christmas Eve 1943 and was originally written by Marks in memory of his girlfriend Ruth, who had just died in a plane crash in Canada.[1] On 24 March 1944, the poem was issued by Marks to Violette Szabo, a French agent of Special Operations Executive who was eventually captured, tortured and killed by the Nazis.
It was made famous by its inclusion in the 1958 movie about Szabo, Carve Her Name with Pride, where the poem was said to be the creation of Violette's husband Etienne. In her 2002 biography Violette Szabo: The Life That I Have, author Susan Ottaway asserted that the poem was actually written for the 1958 movie.[citation needed][unreliable source?]
On July 31, 2010, the poem was read at the wedding of Chelsea Clinton.[2][3]
The text of the poem reads as follows:Marks, Leo (1998). Between Silk and Cyanide. New York: The Free Press (Simon and Schuster). p. 454. ISBN 0-684-86422-3.
- 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.
Bibliography [link]
- Leo Marks (1998). Between Silk and Cyanide. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-255944-7. Marks relates his briefing of Violette Szabo prior to her first mission, and his giving the poem to her in Chapter 65 of this book.
- Leo Marks (1999). The Life That I Have. illus. by Elena Gaussen Marks. London: Souvenir. ISBN 0-285-63532-8. A small 34 page book with the text of the poem, illustrated by his wife.
Notes [link]
- ^ Marks, Leo (1998). Between Silk and Cyanide. New York: The Free Press (Simon and Schuster). p. 454. ISBN 0-684-86422-3.
- ^ "Chelsea Clinton's Christian-Jewish wedding is just the start: Now what?". USA Today. https://www.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2010/07/chelsea-rabbi-minister-marc-wedding-clinton/1.
- ^ "Chelsea Clinton weds longtime beau in New York". CNN. August 1, 2010. https://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/31/chelsea.wedding/index.html.
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Podcasts:
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I Have ...
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My stare burns
The conflict of logic
The crowd stands in awe
Screen in a speakeasy
A man in black
We've addressed many times
And call on now
Thought occurs
I've been here before
Hear his words
I've seen him somewhere
The vision haunts
I know him somehow
As I tear my mind
I've been here before
Never has power risen so
As we lay our bodies to the butcher called
Patriotism
Another shot heard round the world
But this time, literally
As I fall slain by faith
I can almost hear liberty say
I have loved just this once
But have lived and died many times
History books
We were so young
We were so strong
That's what they taught us
Baring in mind
It's only a book
I close it and walk out
Wide eyes and all