1 passage by John McCrae, from In Flanders Fields and Other Poems. John McCrae died in 1918, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
Canadian physician, soldier and poet (1872–1918), author of “In Flanders Fields” (1915). He died in France during the First World War.
In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.
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