A customer of mine at the pub introduced me to a poem written in 1914 during the first world war and is mostly known to the people of England, but has come to represent any fallen soldiers or casualties of any war. Though 9/11 was technically before the War on Terror, I felt the poem spoke just as strongly, and the last line in particular is the most well known part of the entire poem.
I am choosing to use the last stanza of this poem on my poster, in addition to a pastel drawing of the twin towers at sunrise and sunset (as the poem states).
The poem is as follows:
- They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
- Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.
- They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
- They fell with their faces to the foe.
- 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.
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- -Laurence Binyon, "Ode of Remembrance" 1914
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