Quoted here, is one verse from the poem entitled For the Fallen by Robert Laurence Binyon, it is a composition that many of us know very well.
The fourth verse of this poem begins "They shall grow not old" can be found on a memorial plaque which stands on a cliff edge between Pentire Point and The Rumps in the north of Cornwall. Reading it, as you glance out to sea, is certain to bring a tear to the eye and a
lump to the throat.
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.
Binyon was a poet and an artist who entered the University of Oxford in 1888. After graduating he worked for the British Museum. With the onset of the first world war Binyon was too old to enlist, instead he worked as a volunteer in a British hospital for French soldiers in France as a hospital orderly.
His poem was written whilst sitting on the very spot you can see below and was first published in September of 1914 in the The Times newspaper.
lump to the throat.
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.
Binyon was a poet and an artist who entered the University of Oxford in 1888. After graduating he worked for the British Museum. With the onset of the first world war Binyon was too old to enlist, instead he worked as a volunteer in a British hospital for French soldiers in France as a hospital orderly.
His poem was written whilst sitting on the very spot you can see below and was first published in September of 1914 in the The Times newspaper.
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