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"In Flanders Fields" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer , who died in the Second Battle of Ypres .
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Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields, Sleep sweet – to rise anew! We caught the torch you threw And holding high, we keep the Faith With All who died. We cherish, too, the Poppy red That grows on fields where valor led; It seems to signal to the skies That blood of heroes never dies, But lends a lustre to the red Of the flower that blooms ...
In 1918, Lieut. John Philip Sousa wrote the music to "In Flanders Fields, the poppies grow" words by Lieut.-Col John McCrae. [32] The Cloth Hall of the city of Ypres in Belgium has a permanent war museum [33] called the "In Flanders Fields Museum", named after the poem. There are also a photograph and a short biographical memorial to McCrae in ...
The next day, he composed the poem while sitting in the back of an ambulance [4] [2] at the Essex Farm Advanced Dressing Station. There are two memorials to McCrae and his poem on the site: a small lozenge-shaped plaque (Albertina Marker) just off Diksmuidseweg (N369) and a larger wall tablet close to the bunkers used by the Advanced Dressing ...
The inspiration for these decorations came from Canadian John McCrae’s World War I poem “In Flanders Field” and its famous first line: “In Flanders Fields the poppies blow, between the ...
Printable version; In other projects ... "We are the Dead", the opening words of the second stanza of "In Flanders Fields", a poem written during the First World War
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: