In Flanders Fields and Other Poems (Voyageur Classics, 26) - Softcover

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John McCrae was a medical doctor and poet. He served with the army in the Second Boer War and later in Europe during the First World War. The suffering and death he witnessed in the war became the subject of many of his poems, including "In Flanders Fields," perhaps the most famous Canadian poem ever written. McCrae died in 1918 and was buried with full military honours.

Sir Andrew Macphail was a noted Canadian physician and man of letters. The founding editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, he also published more than ten books. He was knighted for his literary and military work in 1918. The book for which he is best remembered is The Master's Wife.

Michael Gnarowski co-edited The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada, compiled The Concise Bibliography of English Canadian Literature, and edited the Critical Views of Canadian Writers Series for McGraw-Hill Ryerson. Gnarowski is professor emeritus at Carleton University in Ottawa.

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IN FLANDERS FIELDS

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between thecrosses, row on row

That markour place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heardamid the guns below.

We are theDead. Short days ago

We lived,felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved andwere loved and now we lie

In Flandersfields.

Take up ourquarrel with the foe:

To you fromfailing hands we throw

The torch: be yours to hold it high.

If ye breakfaith with us who die.

We shall notsleep, though poppies grow

In Flandersfields.