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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