"Flanders Fields", by the way, is not a particularly anti-war poem. Only the first two verses could be interpreted that way...
In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army
IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies grow
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.
Off Topic » in reply to re: Epitaph for an Empire
To be fair...
The whole thread (29 posts)
- Homage to a Government
- Ahh, money. And the reason they were there in the first place was - - - ?
- Epitaph for an Empire
- Empire and the U.S.
- re: Epitaph for an Empire
- re: Epitaph for an Empire
- Another Epitaph for an Empire
- He would have fit right in here in the Zone.
- re: Epitaph for an Empire
