Thursday, November 11, 2010

Lest We Forget

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



Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915

during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium





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