Lest We Forget

"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.

[Babs]

Lest we forget.

[Annie D]

@onewing attended the dawn service at our local RSL

[Sam]

Never, ever forget! FAV

[Beryl Lloyd]

Wonderful ! love the overlay giving it that dreamy , far away feel to it ! fav

[Annie D]

@beryl the overlay is the sunrise on the way to the service

[Lou Ann]

Beautiful sentiment and photo. Fav

[Maggiemae]

Very beautiful tribute to the important event and nice to see you have got this good photograph!

[Marnie]

Lest we forget. As an aside I once heard a supposed expert say that the word 'condemn' was originally the archaic 'contemn' (as in contempt). Dunno whether or not that's correct, but a little research would probably tell me the answer.

[Annie D]

@golftragic I came across something saying the same the other day when I was looking up some things.

[Marnie]

@annied Interesting. Being a fully paid-up member of the grammar police and unashamed semantic freak my curiousity is really piqued now.

[Annie D]

@golftragic hahahaha I am a member of the same club - I do get lazy here with punctuation but grammar and their, there and they're and similar drive me crazy :)