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TITLE: IN FLANDERS FIELDS AND OTHER POEMS
AUTHOR: JOHN MCCRAE
EBOOK: E02618 (O'Briens Book Cellar)

In Flanders Fields
by John McCrae [Canadian Poet, 1872-1918]

[Note on text:  Italicized stanzas are indented 5 spaces.
Italicized words or phrases are capitalized.
Some slight errors have been corrected.]

In Flanders Fields
by John McCrae

With an Essay in Character by Sir Andrew Macphail

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John McCrae, physician, soldier, and poet, died in France
a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Canadian forces.

The poem which gives this collection of his lovely verse its name
has been extensively reprinted, and received with unusual enthusiasm.

The volume contains, as well, a striking essay in character
by his friend, Sir Andrew Macphail.

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In Flanders Fields
And Other Poems

By Lieut.-Col. John McCrae, M.D.

With An Essay in Character
By Sir Andrew Macphail

[This text is taken from the New York edition of 1919.]

{Although the poem itself is included shortly, this next section
is included for completeness, and to show John McCrae's punctuation --
also to show that I'm not the only one who forgets lines.  -- A. L.}

In Flanders Fields
        --

In Flanders fields the poppies grow
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.

                      John McCrae

{From a} Facsimile of an autograph copy of the poem "In Flanders Fields"

This was probably written from memory as "grow" is used in place of "blow"
in the first line.

Contents

In Flanders Fields
  1915

The Anxious Dead
  1917

The Warrior
  1907

Isandlwana
  1910

The Unconquered Dead
  1906

The Captain
  1913

The Song of the Derelict
  1898

Quebec
  1908

Then and Now
  1896

Unsolved
  1895

The Hope of My Heart
  1894

Penance
  1896

Slumber Songs
  1897

The Oldest Drama
  1907

Recompense
  1896

Mine Host
  1897

Equality
  1898

Anarchy
  1897

Disarmament
  1899

The Dead Master
  1913

The Harvest of the Sea
  1898

The Dying of Pere Pierre
  1904

Eventide
  1895

Upon Watts' Picture "Sic Transit"
  1904

A Song of Comfort
  1894

The Pilgrims
  1905

The Shadow of the Cross
  1894

The Night Cometh
  1913

In Due Season
  1897

John McCrae
  An Essay in Character by Sir Andrew Macphail

In Flanders Fields

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.

The Anxious Dead

O guns, fall silent till the dead men hear
 Above their heads the legions pressing on:
(These fought their fight in time of bitter fear,
 And died not knowing how the day had gone.)

O flashing muzzles, pause, and let them see
 The coming dawn that streaks the sky afar;
Then let your mighty chorus witness be
 To them, and Caesar, that we still make war.

Tell them, O guns, that we have heard their call,
 That we have sworn, and will not turn aside,
That we will onward till we win or fall,
 That we will keep the faith for which they died.

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