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Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 17
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*l than that somewhere in this great struggle you find a place to serve this untverlity, this Commonwealth, this nation, the whole world hy \oiir lofty patriotism and devotion to all that is true and beautiful and good. S^me of you will go to Handera, I pray Ciod you may return with the laurel wreath tor faithful and distinguished service long to hless your family and your country. Some of you will doubtless fall there, and lie among the poppies of the Flandert fields. You will have taken up the torch dropped hy your predecessors and helped carry it on to victory. Our love, our admiration, our honor, our gratitude and that of all posterity will follow you as you make this great sacrifice! John McRae has called to you in these beautiful lines from those who lie in Flanders fields where he now lies himself: In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The lark,, still h r a v c | y | i n g . j Sc arcc heard amid the guns bell* We are the dead; ihort days ag0 We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glc Loved and wen loved, and now we |j In Flanders fields. Take up our Quarrel with the foe! To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it hig If ye break faith with us who di We shall not sleep, though poppies gr In M a n t e l fields. Not like those Roman Gladiators who they entered the arena turned and chai^ to the Emperor: Morituri tc salutantus! We who are about to die salute t < h , . . , 4l • , ~~ > "We who are about to live salute theej you rush forward into this conflict, a! if to lie in Inlanders fields among the pies—then still to have lift and to hait more abundantly.
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