The Ode
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.
The Ode comes from For the Fallen, a poem by the English poet and writer Laurence Binyon and was published in London in The Winnowing Fan: Poems of the Great War in 1914.
This verse, which became the Ode for the Returned and Services League, has been used in association with commemoration services in Australia since 1921.
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on Apr 26th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
And let us not fail to remember the Aboriginal warriors who died defending their land, families and lifestyle against occupation by a brutal foreign empire.
on Sep 16th, 2010 at 10:26 am
Great sharing this.