In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields
 By 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.
 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist, and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war (Wikipedia).