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By Laurence Binyon. With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal.
"For the Fallen" is an elegy written by English poet and playwright Laurence Binyon in 1914—shortly after the outbreak of World War I. First printed in the British newspaper The Times, the deeply patriotic poem mourns, honors, and celebrates the soldiers who died fighting for England in the war.
"For the Fallen" is a poem written by Laurence Binyon. It was first published in The Times in September 1914. It was also published in Binyon's book "The Winnowing Fan : Poems On The Great War" by Elkin Mathews, London, 1914.
‘For the Fallen’ by Laurence Binyon addresses the loss of lives in World War I and how they will live on forever in the stars. In the first lines of ‘For the Fallen,’ the speaker begins by personifying England.
For the Fallen. Robert Laurence Binyon, by artist William Strang. (1) Poem by Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), published in The Times newspaper on 21 September 1914. With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.
For The Fallen. With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal. Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres, There is music in the midst of desolation.
Laurence Binyon. 1869 –. 1943. With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal. Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres. There is a music in the midst of desolation.
