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class="long-line">Fallen in the cause of the free.</span></p> <p><span class="long-line">Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal </span><br> <span class="long-line">Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres. </span><br> <span class="long-line">There is a music in the midst of desolation </span><br> <span class="long-line">And a glory that shines upon our tears. </span></p> <p><span class="long-line">They went with songs to the battle, they were young, </span><br> <span class="long-line">Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. </span><br> <span class="long-line">They were staunch to the end against odds uncountered: </span><br> <span class="long-line">They fell with their faces to the foe. </span></p> <p><span class="long-line">They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:</span><br> <span class="long-line">Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. </span><br> <span class="long-line">At the going down of the sun and in the morning </span><br> <span class="long-line">We will remember them. </span></p> <p><span class="long-line">They mingle not with their laughing comrades again; </span><br> <span class="long-line">They sit no more at familiar tables at home; </span><br> <span class="long-line">They have no lot in our labour of the day-time; </span><br> <span class="long-line">They sleep beyond England’s foam. </span></p> <p><span class="long-line">But where our desires are and our hopes profound, </span><br> <span class="long-line">Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight, </span><br> <span class="long-line">To the innermost heart of their own land they are known </span><br> <span class="long-line">As the stars are known to the Night; </span></p> <p><span class="long-line">As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust, </span><br> <span class="long-line">Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain; </span><br> <span class="long-line">As the stars are starry in the time of our darkness, </span><br> <span class="long-line">To the end, to the end they remain.</span></p> </div> <div class="field field--field_credit"><p>First published in 1914.</p> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div> <aside class="col-md-4 layout-sidebar" role="complementary"> <div> <div id="block-nodesidebarfields"> <article> <div> <div class="field field--field_author" itemprop="author"> <div class="field__content"><article> <div> <div class="field field--body"><p>Laurence Binyon was born in Lancaster, England, in 1869. Best known for his poem “For the Fallen,” written at the onset of World War I, Binyon also wrote and translated verse drama and worked as an art historian. 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