The Crazy Rants of Samantha BurnsCanada's Remembrance Day
In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army
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
Thanks for posting the poem. I really enjoyed it, I've always found poetry about war to be so powerful, can't remember the poets I've read who wrote on WWI, but there's really some amazing stuff.
Posted by: seb | November 11, 2006 12:41 PM
Thanks for re-printing Flanders Field. My wife is a Canadian and feels left out sometimes when in America veterans day is a day to sell jewelry on the cheap( Im a veteran and Im appalled). We watched the Maple Leafs play saturday night and the reverance and pride that was shown to the Canadian veterans had both my wife and I teary eyed. Then the reading of Flanders Field, my wife lost it.
Posted by: solorunner | November 14, 2006 06:30 AM