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 Flander’s 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 when we die,

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flander’s Fields.

 

John McCrae