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, fell 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 falling hands we throw the torch: be yours to hold high.
If ye break faith with us who die we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders Fields.
By Colonel John McCrea
We are the dead, short days ago we lived, fell 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 falling hands we throw the torch: be yours to hold high.
If ye break faith with us who die we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders Fields.
By Colonel John McCrea