In honor of Remembrance day, here is "In Flanders Fields",
IN FLANDERS FIELDS POEM
The World’s Most Famous WAR MEMORIAL POEM
By Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead: Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved: and now we lie
In Flanders fields!
Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you, from failing hands, we throw
The torch: be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields
Comments
I hope
That everyone takes time out of thier day to pay respect to those that gave thier lives so that there would be a future for us all.
It's the least we could do.
Agreed
I was on a Tyne & Wear Metro service between Sunderland and Newcastle this morning. It arrived at an intermediate station called Brockley Whins at exactly 11 o'clock, at which point the driver announced on the PA that the train would remain at the platform so that a period of 2 minutes silence could be observed. I've no idea whether or not he was acting under instructions, but in any case it was nice to have a chance to remember the fallen.
In Flanders Fields
I've had the privilege for a couple of years to know this poem by being part of a group that sang a very powerful men's chorus setting of it (the Stephen Chatman arrangement). All the more striking having seen the crosses, though.
Dona eis pacem.