In Flanders
Fields the poppies blow |
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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. |
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We are the dead.
Short days ago |
We lived, felt
dawn, saw the sunset glow, |
Loved and were
loved, and now we lie, |
In Flanders
fields. |
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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. |
John McCrae |
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