The Life That I Have
- The Life That I Have
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The Life That I Have est le titre d'un court poème écrit par Leo Marks pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et remis à Violette Szabo, agent secret du Special Operations Executive, juste avant son départ pour la France le 24 mars 1944, pour qu'il lui serve à chiffrer les messages secrets qu'elle enverrait.
Auparavant, c'est des poèmes célèbres que les agents du SOE utilisaient pour chiffrer les messages. Mais leur célébrité même constituait un élément d'insécurité, les cryptographes ennemis étant en mesure de déterminer l'original à partir des sources publiées. Leo Marks contra cet inconvénient en utilisant ses propres poèmes, par définition inconnus.
À l'origine, Leo Marks avait écrit le poème The Life That I Have au moment des fêtes de Noël 1943 en mémoire de son amie Ruth qui venait de mourir dans un accident d'avion au Canada.
En 1958, le poème fut rendu célèbre lorsqu'il fut utilisé dans le film Carve Her Name with Pride consacré à l'action de Violette Szabo.
Texte du poème
- The Life That I Have
- 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
Sources
Bibliographie
- (en)Leo Marks, Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941-1945, HarperCollins, London, 1998, ISBN 0-00-255944-7.
- (en)Leo Marks, The Life That I Have, illus. par Elena Gaussen Marks, Souvenir, London, 1999, ISBN 0-285-63532-8, .
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