In Remembrance

In Flanders Fields 

 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. By Dr John McCrae, 1915