Remembrance and Poppy • In Flanders Fields
In Flander's 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 you break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.
John McCrae