In Flanders Fields
In Flanders Fields
Original Text
Lieut.-Col. John McCrae, M.D., In Flanders Fields and Other Poems, With An Essay in Character By Sir Andrew Macphail (Toronto: William Briggs; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1919): 3. PS 8474 C715 1919 Robarts Library
1In Flanders fields the poppies blow
2Between the crosses, row on row,
3 That mark our place; and in the sky
4 The larks, still bravely singing, fly
5Scarce heard amid the guns below.
6We are the Dead. Short days ago
7We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
8 Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
9 In Flanders fields.
10Take up our quarrel with the foe:
11To you from failing hands we throw
12 The torch; be yours to hold it high.
13 If ye break faith with us who die
14We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
15 In Flanders fields.
Publication Start Year
1915
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1996-2000.
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