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How Soon We Forget
Contributed by
scott
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Thursday, 9th October 2003 @ 09:37:55 PM in AEST
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If you get all the subtle references to other poms within this poem, give yourself a pat on the back
In Flanders Fields the bodies rot
But no one seems to give it much thought
We beheld the Charge of the Light Brigade
But no one seems to remember that day
Nor has it been that long since Joyce Kilmer beheld the trees,
From across the shattered no-man’s-land, swaying in the breeze
How soon we break faith with those who die
How soon we see history with a blind eye
Years ago the cannon’s blared
Years ago someone might have cared
Yet the larks still bravely singing fly
Across the same small stretch of sky
That John McCrae may have spied
In the last moments before he died.
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2003-10-09 21:37:55]
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Re: How Soon We Forget
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by jaeann on
Thursday, 9th October 2003 @ 11:55:32 PM AEST
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| awesome!!!!! i love this!!!! |
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Re: How Soon We Forget
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by Maccabeus on
Sunday, 16th December 2007 @ 06:33:03 AM AEST
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| I agrre completely. It is sad how high one has to be to fall so far. |
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