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[Dreamwoven]

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[Matt14]

HI, my name is Matt14.

I am looking for a poem from the 1930's, or it could be earlier. My mother learned it in school. she has remembered a few lines but, not the title, the lines are as follows:

With proud thanksgiving a mother for her children
England morns across the sea
blood of her blood
spirit of her spirit
born in the cause of the free.....

This is what I was able to get. I hope someone knows of this poem and would let me know about it Please.

I do not know if these lines are from the same poem:

How we all extend ourselves
Blood across the water (English Channel)

Thank you for any help. It is for my mother who has dementia

[Raleigh Becket]

Well, I never thought I'd be visiting forums again (my last was back in '06 or '07) but here I am.

My name's Sal. Avid book lover who just started getting into classical fiction. I've been using this website for the past few months to interpret works from various classical authors. It's nice to meet you all.

[qimissung]

HI, my name is Matt14.

I am looking for a poem from the 1930's, or it could be earlier. My mother learned it in school. she has remembered a few lines but, not the title, the lines are as follows:

With proud thanksgiving a mother for her children
England morns across the sea
blood of her blood
spirit of her spirit
born in the cause of the free.....

This is what I was able to get. I hope someone knows of this poem and would let me know about it Please.

I do not know if these lines are from the same poem:

How we all extend ourselves
Blood across the water (English Channel)

Thank you for any help. It is for my mother who has dementia

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/laur...the-fallen.htm

[qimissung]

Hi guys, and welcome!

[spikepipsqueak]

HI, my name is Matt14.

I am looking for a poem from the 1930's, or it could be earlier. My mother learned it in school. she has remembered a few lines but, not the title, the lines are as follows:

With proud thanksgiving a mother for her children
England morns across the sea
blood of her blood
spirit of her spirit
born in the cause of the free.....

This is what I was able to get. I hope someone knows of this poem and would let me know about it Please.

I do not know if these lines are from the same poem:

How we all extend ourselves
Blood across the water (English Channel)

Thank you for any help. It is for my mother who has dementia

Here 'tis

For The Fallen (1914)

by Laurence Binyon (1869 - 1943)

The Ode is the fourth stanza of “For the Fallen”, a poem written by Laurence Binyon in 1914. The Ode has been recited in ceremonies since 1919, including at the Australian War Memorial’s inauguration in 1929 and at every ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day Ceremony held at the Memorial. These lines should be recited in a respectful manner:


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 in drums thrill: Death august and royal
Signs 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:
They sit no more at familiar tables at home;
They have no lot in our labor of the daytime;
They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
felt as a wellspring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars that are known to the Night.

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
to the end, to the end, they remain.

[Dreamwoven]

Brilliant that this poem was found by Spikepipsqueek! Not just found but quoted in full, including the title and the author.

[Ms_Read]

I joined a few years ago (2012) but ... I dunno.
I have been busy. My name is Jill and I'm a
extreme lit student. I'm addicted to syllabi.



Hi everyone.

[Dreamwoven]

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[Andrea Michelle]

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