"The naked earth is warm with spring,
And with green grass and bursting trees
Leans to the sun's gaze glorying,
And quivers in the sunny breeze;
And life is colour and warmth and light,
And a striving evermore for these;
And he is dead who will not fight;
And who dies fighting has increase."
(An excerpt from "Into Battle" by Julian Grenfell, who died in the Great War.)
To honour the fallen since last time:
U.K. (2)
U.S. (California (4), Florida (2), Mississippi,
North Carolina, New York, Tennessee,
Wisconsin, Texas (3), Georgia, Hawaii,
Illinois, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Kentucky,
Indiana, Rhode Island, Washington)
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3 comments:
Julian Grenfell is one of my absolute favorites. I adore the Great War Poets...they move me beyond compare.
(On a more practical note SG, I wish you'd get rid of the Captcha or whatever that letter scrambler thing is, I cannot read the dang thing and believe it or not, I haven't left a post because of the dang thing. OK, I said it.
I kinda wish that I hadn't given the book of WWI poetry I had to my brother as a gift.
(Ah... I have a hard time reading the letters as well. I'll see what I can do. Haven't looked at the settings since I started the blog.)
Thank you!
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