Service (Remembrance Day 2001)
Splendid you passed, the great surrender made;
Into the light that nevermore shall fade;
Deep your contentment in that blest abode,
Who wait the last clear trumpet-call of God.
"Let us remember," Dad said, as if by remembering, we could put the pieces together again. Before the bugle sounded, grown men wept. And row on row of children with poppies on their shoulders, in silence, listened to the cold wind blow.
Copyright: j. m. bridgeman.
Words to "O Valiant Hearts" by John Stanhope Arkwright
For more information on the poppy, visit the Royal Canadian Legion's Remembrance Day page at http://www.legion.ca/english/rday.htm
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