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Originally posted by sarah goode
Here is the line I was thinking of (also there are poppies on the cover):
IN DERELICT SIDINGS THE POPPIES ENTWINE
IN CATTLE TRUCKS LYING IN WAIT
FOR THE NEXT TIME
I follow the first two versus but I don't know the poppy reference. |
This might offer a clue, as Roger was influenced by the poet, Dr. John McCrae:
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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Poppies only grow where the earth is disturbed (often for burial sites), and after the wars there were field upon field of poppies to be found, due to the destruction. Poppies, as cited above, are now almost universally acknowledged as the "flower of remembrance" for Memorial Day and other solemn remembrances of wartime.
I do believe it may have been John McCrae (i've some research to do, yet) who wrote another poem referenced on TFC, which included the line "There is a corner of a foreign field that remains forever England" (I'm paraphrasing, of course).
Give me time, and I should be able to find it.
Enjoying the English Lit/History lesson, folks? LOL
Cheers!
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