The above lines originate from J. Maxwell Edmonds’ Inscriptions suggested for war memorials published in the 1920s. Edmonds was a classical scholar and may have had at the back of his mind the epitaph upon the Spartans at Thermopylae, composed by the contemporary poet Simonides: "Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by That faithful to their precepts here we lie."
"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." - "For the Fallen"
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." - General George S. Patton, Jr.
ReplyDelete"When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
ReplyDeleteFor Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today"
- Kohima Epitaph, attributed to to John Maxwell Edmonds.
The above lines originate from J. Maxwell Edmonds’ Inscriptions suggested for war memorials published in the 1920s. Edmonds was a classical scholar and may have had at the back of his mind the epitaph upon the Spartans at Thermopylae, composed by the contemporary poet Simonides:
ReplyDelete"Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by
That faithful to their precepts here we lie."
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
ReplyDeleteAge shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them."
- "For the Fallen"