Robert+Laurance+Binyon+-+For+The+Fallen

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres, There is music in the midst of desolation And a glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted; They fell with their faces to the foe.

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

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again; <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">They sit no more at familiar tables of home; <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">They have no lot in our labour of the day-time; <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">They sleep beyond England's foam.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">But where our desires are and our hopes profound, <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight, <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">To the innermost heart of their own land they are known <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">As the stars are known to the Night;

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust, <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain; <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">To the end, to the end, they remain.