{"id":129445,"date":"2024-05-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129445"},"modified":"2024-05-27T07:28:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T11:28:03","slug":"more-poetry-for-memorial-day-laurence-binyons-for-the-fallen-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129445","title":{"rendered":"More Poetry for Memorial Day&#8211;Laurence Binyon&#8217;s For the Fallen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal<br>Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,<br>There is music in the midst of desolation<br>And a glory that shines upon our tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They went with songs to the battle, they were young,<br>Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.<br>They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;<br>They fell with their faces to the foe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:<br>Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.<br>At the going down of the sun and in the morning<br>We will remember them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/57322\/for-the-fallen\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Throughout this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MemorialDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MemorialDay<\/a> weekend, we <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HonorTheFallen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HonorTheFallen<\/a> who sacrificed for our freedom.<br><br>Their courage and dedication will never be forgotten. Let us pause and pay tribute to our fallen heroes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SHVorTn7Ux\">pic.twitter.com\/SHVorTn7Ux<\/a><\/p>&mdash; U.S. Army (@USArmy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USArmy\/status\/1794081687627759764?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royalSings sorrow up into immortal spheres,There is music in the midst of desolationAnd a glory that shines upon our tears. They went with songs to the battle, they were young,Straight of limb, true<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129445\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[438,106,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-burial-funerals","category-military-armed-forces","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129448,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129445\/revisions\/129448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}