age shall not weary them nor the years condemn them....

[chinadoll]

what was this piece written for and by who.... was it for the WWI dead ?

[shaneystar]

Written by Laurence Binyon in 1914.

Full text here
http://www.aldworth.info/Aldworth/binyon.html

Laurence Binyon, who was 45 in 1914, was a British academic and poet. He worked for the Red Cross during the First World War, and did not visit the front line until 1916, two years after writing this poem.

[lynneuk74]

I find that poem so moving - no matter how many times I hear it.

God, aren't we lucky - I have so much admiration for those who fought in WW1. Terrible way to die.

[smudge]

Me too lynne! Also, my poor old Grandad was killed in WW1 & is buried in Ypres, bless him.

Thank you for that shaney - I've saved it.

[woofgang]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question164334.html

go and look at this link too

[shaneystar]

'Tis a sad poem indeed. Mr.S. never knew his grandfather who was killed in 1914 in France leaving behind a wife who was expecting a child ..my father-in-law. He was on the other side but nevertheless just an ordinary man doing his duty for his country.F-I-L had to fight in the second lot and hated it...my own real mother was a refugee fleeing a war torn country .All war is futile..a waste of life.

[smudge]

It certainly is a waste of life - for what I ask?