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The Life that I Have

The life that I have is all that I have,

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

This code-poem was used by Violette Szabo while she was sending messages back from occupied France during the Second World War. The poem was written by 'Leo Marks'  who was a cryptographer for SOE and often used poems like this for agents to use.