In Flanders Fields - Remembrance Day (red poppies)

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 Contents

• 1 Background
• 2 Poem
• 3 Publication
• 4 Popularity
• 5 Legacy
  • 5.1 Remembrance poppies
• 6 See also
• 7 References
• 8 External links
  

  IN FLANDERS FIELDS POEM
  The World’s Most Famous WAR MEMORIAL POEM
  By Lieutenant Colonel John 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 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
  Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915