"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them."
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them."
- Laurence Binyon
from For the Fallen
While doing research for this Veterans Day blog post, I was surprised by the number of poems that are an integral part of Armistice/Veterans Day observances. Dr. Stuart Lee, Oxford University English Lecturer, notes that this was "one of the seminal moments of the
twentieth-century in which literate soldiers, plunged into
inhuman conditions, reacted to their surroundings."
In honor of our veterans and this year Veterans Day observances, I'm going to drop a link in here, for the Poetry Foundations curated collection of WWI poems.
We hope you enjoy your brief rest from classes and/or work. See you back at the Law Library on Thursday!
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