IN FLANDERS FIELDS

LIEUT. COL. JOHN D. McCRAE

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 amidst 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