Sunday, November 11, 2012

Lest We Forget



"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."

From "The Fallen" by Laurence Binyon
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  1. rachelNovember 12, 2012 at 11:54 AM

    Lovely, sad words. Even more poignant when spoken by a very elderly man at the tiny war memorial in the village yesterday....

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from an old gravestone

If you hold your nose to the Grindstone
and you leave it there long enough,
Then soon you'll say
there's no such things
as brooks that babble
and birds that sing,
these three will all your world compose,
just you, the stone and your poor old nose.

(from memory so may not be word perfect)