In Flanders Fields

[Hip's Ax]

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.

[testhop]

thanks HIP
if there was a time we need to remmberit is now

[Frosty]

Breathes there the man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored , and unsung.

The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Sir Walter Scott

[legend]

thanks hip its been too long since i thought of this...
thanks for letting me remember.

[DonH]

Some reading of the history of the insanity called "The Great War" can give one a different perspective of "IN FLANDERS FIELD". Those who oppose the current war seriously need to read up on that World War if they want to know what a needless war really is. And our part in it was the most needless part of all! I very likely owe my existence to the fact that the Armistice was signed before my grandfather reached the front.