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John McCrae (1872-1918)
In Flanders Fields
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, felt 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 failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
This poem appeared in Punch magazine in 1915. It can be found in:
McCrae, John. In Flanders Fields and Other Poems.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919.
Phillips, Louis, ed. The Random House Treasury of Best-Loved Poems
(Second Edition).
New York: Random House, 1995.
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