Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours."
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
~ Laurence Binyon: For the Fallen 1914
9 comments:
Another lovely post and verse Jo! I think people are forgetting what this holiday is all about--We really need to remember those who gave their lives so we could have a better one...
Solemn beauty, a beautiful posts and thoughts !
I spent the day at a cemetery very much like the one pictured. It's a ausome reminder of all those soldiers that have faught for the freedoms that we now enjoy. The lines of headstones seem to go on forever in every direction.
Lovely post lest we forget
beautiful and yes we will remember them.
Remembering the fallen... I was in a graveyard yesterday and looking at all the flags... just one little corner of the country where this scene is being repeated everywhere.
Beautiful poem and image here. In the USA, there is Memorial Day in the spring and Veteran's Day in the fall as well, I believe?
This image reminds me of Arlington Cemetary. We've been there a couple of times and it's truly amazing.
We must never forget our men and women that died to make us free.
Patsy
What a lovely and sobering poem.
There is an amazing quilt that has the last two lines of this poem stitched around its border. The quilt was made by Josephine Ratcliff of Preston, Lancashire, England in 1991 for the Church of St. John, Preston. "Sunset Cross", as the quilt is titled, hangs in the chapel of the Queen's Loyal Lancashire Regiment in Preston Parish Church. It is pictured in the book, "The Patchwork Pilgrimage" by Jill Liddell.
Ta!
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