[lit-ideas] Re: Carrying On - Horticulturally
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- Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 23:00:33 +0200
Carrying on serendipitously:
On 03 May 2015, at 14:56, I wrote:
Paeonia lactiflora 'Victoire de la Marne' ...
etc.
Shortly after sending it I learned that this message about (among other things)
two battles in WWI was posted on the centenary of the composition of John
McCrae's 'In Flanders Fields' (the poem commemorating the dead of WWI which
most Canadian school boys of a certain age know by heart):
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.
According to Wikipedia, "the most commonly held belief is that McCrae wrote 'In
Flanders Fields' on May 3, 1915, the day after presiding over the funeral and
burial of his friend Lieutenant Alex Helmer, who had been killed during the
Second Battle of Ypres."
Chris Bruce,
recommending Robert Graves' GOODBYE TO ALL THAT,
and Erich Maria Remarque's ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT [IM WESTEN NICHTS
NEUES]
to any who have not read them
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