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{{Short description|1914 poem by Laurence Binyon}}
{{Infobox poem
| name              = For the Fallen
| author            = [[Laurence Binyon]]
| publication_date  = 21 September 1914
| image             = For the Fallen, Stirling War Memorial.jpg
| caption           = "For the Fallen" inscription on the Stirling War Memorial in Scotland
| country           = United Kingdom and the commonwealth
| first             = ''[[The Times]]''
| subject           = [[Remembrance Day]], war
| wikisource        = The Times/1914/Arts/For the Fallen
}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2011}}
"'''For the Fallen'''" is a poem written by [[Laurence Binyon]]. It was first published in ''[[The Times]]'' in September 1914. It was also published in Binyon's book "The Winnowing Fan : Poems On The Great War" by Elkin Mathews, London, 1914.

Over time, the third and fourth [[stanza]]s of the poem (usually now just the fourth) have been claimed as a tribute to all [[Casualty (person)|casualties]] of war, regardless of state.<ref name=":2" /> This selection of the poem is often taken as an [[ode]] that is often recited at [[Remembrance Day]] and [[Anzac Day|ANZAC Day]] services, and is what the term "'''Ode of Remembrance'''" usually refers to.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-06-06 |title=Ode of Remembrance (For the Fallen) |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25652224 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423065523/http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25652224 |archive-date=23 April 2019 |access-date=2019-02-02 |work=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref>

==Background==
[[File:Christchurch Cathedral Memorial.JPG|thumb|War memorial in [[ChristChurch Cathedral]], Christchurch, New Zealand]]
[[File:Hornchurch Cemetery 20200929 125856 (50402913903).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Commonwealth War Graves Commission|CWGC]] headstone with excerpt from "For The Fallen"]] [[Laurence Binyon]] (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943),<ref>{{Cite web|title=Laurence Binyon {{!}} English scholar and poet|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laurence-Binyon|access-date=2019-03-02|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref> a British poet, was described as having a "sober" response to the [[outbreak of World War I]], in contrast to the euphoria many others felt (although he signed the "Author's Declaration" that defended British involvement in the war, appearing in ''[[The New York Times]]'' on 18 September with 54 other British authors—including [[Thomas Hardy]], [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], and [[H. G. Wells|H.G. Wells]]).

A week after the war began in 1914, Binyon published his first war poem, "[[wikisource:Poems of the Great War/Fourth of August|The Fourth of August]]" in ''[[The Times]].''{{Sfn|Hatcher|1995|p=191}}<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kck3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT16|title=British Literature of World War I|last1=Maunder|first1=Andrew|last2=Smith|first2=Angela K.|last3=Potter|first3=Jane|last4=Tate|first4=Trudi|date=2017|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-351-22228-0|page=16}}</ref><ref>Milne, Nick. 2014 October 20. "[https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/10/british-authors-and-wwi-propaganda-manifesto-signed-by-h-g-wells-arthur-conan-doyle-rudyard-kipling.html 1914 Authors’ Manifesto Defending Britain’s Involvement in WWI, Signed by H.G. Wells and Arthur Conan Doyle]." ''Slate''.</ref>[[File:ForTheFallenPlaqueCornwall.jpg|thumb|"For The Fallen" plaque with [[The Rumps]] promontory beyond]]

===Writing===
On 23 August, in Britain's opening action of World War I on the [[Western Front (WWI)|Western Front]], the [[British Expeditionary Force (World War I)|British Expeditionary Force]] (BEF) suffered a loss at the [[Battle of Mons]] and the subsequent [[Great Retreat|lengthy retreat]]. The extent of fighting to follow was not revealed as casualties were comparable to past European wars.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Battle of Mons|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Battle-of-Mons-1914|access-date=2019-03-02|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref>{{Sfn|Hatcher|1995|p=192}} "For the Fallen" was specifically composed in honour of the casualties of the BEF, written immediately following the retreat from the Battle of Mons.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p029yv7l|title=World War One at Home, North Coast, Cornwall: Inspiration for the 'Ode of Remembrance'|website=BBC|date=3 November 2014 |language=en-GB|access-date=2019-02-02}}</ref>{{Sfn|Hatcher|1995|p=192}}

Binyon composed the original poem while sitting on the cliffs between [[Pentire Point]] and [[The Rumps]] in north [[Cornwall]], [[UK]]. A stone plaque was erected at the spot in 2001 to commemorate the fact. The plaque bears the inscription:<ref name=":1" /><poem style="margin-left: 1em;">For the Fallen
Composed on these cliffs 1914</poem>

There is also a plaque on the East Cliff above [[Portreath]] in central North Cornwall which cites that as the place where Binyon composed the poem.<ref name=":1" /> It was published in ''The Times'' on 21 September 1914, just seven weeks after the beginning of the war.{{Sfn|Hatcher|1995|p=192}}

==Poem==
<poem style="margin-left: 1em;">With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free. (1{{en dash}}4)

Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears. (5{{en dash}}8)

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted:
They fell with their faces to the foe. (9{{en dash}}12)

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. (13{{en dash}}16)

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam. (17{{en dash}}20)

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night; (21{{en dash}}24)

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain. (25{{en dash}}28)
</poem>

=== Analysis ===

The first stanza establishes a patriotic element. Binyon personifies the United Kingdom as a "[[Motherland|mother]]," and British soldiers as its "children." The poem remembers the deaths of soldiers while justifying the cause of their deaths as "the cause of the free": a theme carried throughout the rest of the poem.{{Sfn|Moffett|2007|p=234}}

The [[Monosyllable|monosyllabic]] words of the second stanza echo "solemn, funereal drums."<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/inside-first-world-war/part-twelve/10986813/for-the-fallen-laurence-binyon-analysis.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630233747/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/inside-first-world-war/part-twelve/10986813/for-the-fallen-laurence-binyon-analysis.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-06-30|title=They shall not grow old: 'For the fallen', Laurence Binyon|last=Steel|first=Nigel|date=2014-07-30|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2019-02-01|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> The stanza, like the first, espouses themes of "martial glorification." It describes war as "solemn," with a "music" and "glory" and compares death to "celestial music".{{Sfn|Moffett|2007|p=234}}

The third stanza refers to soldiers marching to fight in the [[First Battle of the Marne|Battle of the Marne]]. It is less known than the fourth,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YVOrAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA251|title=Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front|last=Fletcher|first=Anthony|date=2013|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-19856-0|page=251}}</ref> despite occasionally being recited on Remembrance Day.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dva.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/publications/commemorations-war-graves/Gallipoli_Services_2015.pdf|title=Commemorative Services: Anzac Day|date=2015|website=Commonwealth of Australia}}</ref> The soldiers are "straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow," and though facing "odds uncounted" are "staunch to the end".{{Sfn|Moffett|2007|p=234}}

The fourth stanza of the poem was written first,<ref name=":0" /> and includes the best known lines in the poem.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.awm.gov.au/commemoration/customs-and-ceremony/recitation|title=The recitation (including the Ode)|website=The Australian War Memorial|access-date=2019-02-01}}</ref> The original words "grow not old" are sometimes quoted as "not grow old." It has also been suggested that the word "condemn" should be "[[wikt:contemn|contemn]]," however "condemn" was used when the poem was first printed in ''The Times'' on 21 September 1914, and later in the anthology ''The Winnowing Fan: Poems of the Great War in 1914''. If either publication had contained a misprint, Binyon had the chance to make an amendment. The issue has arisen in Australia, with little or no debate in other [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] countries that mark [[Remembrance Day]].<ref>[http://www.anzacday.org.au/education/tff/rememwords.html Anzac Day - Traditions, Facts and Folklore: Words of Remembrance] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603235758/http://www.anzacday.org.au/education/tff/rememwords.html|date=3 June 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.army.gov.au/our-history/traditions/the-ode|title=The Ode|date=2016-10-05|website=The Australian Army|language=en|access-date=2019-02-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.awm.gov.au/commemoration/customs-and-ceremony/poems|title=Poems|website=The Australian War Memorial|access-date=2019-02-01}}</ref> The line commencing "Age shall not weary them" echoes (probably unconsciously) Enobarbus' description of Cleopatra in ''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'': "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.awm.gov.au/wartime/8/articles/flanders_fields.pdf|title=The Ode|access-date=15 October 2012}}</ref>

In the fifth stanza, Binyon speaks of loss and mourns the deaths of soldiers who left behind "familiar tables" and "laughing comrades."{{Sfn|Moffett|2007|p=235}} In the sixth stanza, the soldiers are described as achieving a sort of "bodily transcendence" in their death.{{Sfn|Moffett|2007|p=236}} Finally, the seventh stanza compares dead soldiers to stars and constellations, that remain traces of being soldiers, moving in "marches". This memorializes the dead while keeping their role as soldiers for the [[British Empire]] present; "an empire that, by association with these eternal soldiers, makes its own claims on a sort of immortality. "{{Sfn|Moffett|2007|p=236}}

== Critical response ==
In his biography on Laurence Binyon, John Hatcher noted:{{Sfn|Hatcher|1995|p=192}}<blockquote>In its gravitas, its tenderness, and depth of grief, "For the Fallen" looks as if it should have appeared in ''The Times'' of 21 September 1918 not 1914. It harmonizes with the tone neither of ''The Times'' war reports nor of other poems appearing at the time... While other early Great War poems sounded hollow when the true scale and nature of the war slowly permeated the national consciousness, this poem grew in stature with each defeat, each abortive push, and pyrrhic victory.</blockquote>Hatcher concludes that "by 1918 it was an infinitely better poem than it had been in 1914." {{Sfn|Hatcher|1995|p=192}} The [[British Library]] said the poem "remains one of the most affecting and well-known elegies from the period."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Manuscript of 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon|url=https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/manuscript-of-for-the-fallen-by-laurence-binyon|access-date=2019-03-02|website=The British Library|archive-date=21 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721103825/https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/manuscript-of-for-the-fallen-by-laurence-binyon|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Usage==
===Memorial services and monuments===
The "Ode of Remembrance" is regularly recited at memorial services held on days commemorating the [[First World War]], such as [[ANZAC Day]], [[Remembrance Day]], and [[Remembrance Sunday]]. Recitations of the "Ode of Remembrance" are often followed by a playing of the "[[Last Post]]".

==== UK/Europe ====
The ode is also read at the [[Menin Gate]], every evening at 8&nbsp;p.m., after the first part of the "Last Post". It is mostly read by a British serviceman. The recital is followed by a minute of silence. The Ode is also read by the members of the [[HMS Hood|HMS ''Hood'']] Association at the end of every annual commemorative service held on 24 May each year, the anniversary of the sinking of HMS ''Hood''.

In 2018, at [[World War I centennial|the centennial]] of the signing of [[Armistice of 11 November 1918|the Armistice]], plans were made to ring [[carillon]]s and church bells across the [[British Commonwealth|Commonwealth]] at local sundown, in reference to the line, "at the going down of the sun... we will remember them." The bells were to be rung 100 times in recognition of the 100 years having passed.<ref>[https://anzac100.initiatives.qld.gov.au/remembranceday/bell-ringing/ Armistice Centenary bell ringing], Anzac Centenary Coordination Unit, State of Queensland, Australia. Accessed 9 November 2018.</ref><ref>[http://www.legion.ca/remembrance/promoting-remembrance/bells-of-peace Bells of Peace], Royal Canadian Legion. Accessed 9 November 2018.</ref>

A plaque on a statue dedicated to the fallen in [[Valletta|La Valletta, Malta]], is also inscribed with these words.

==== Oceania ====
In [[Australia]]'s [[Returned and Services League]]s, and in [[New Zealand]]'s [[Returned Services Association]]s, it is read out nightly at 6&nbsp;p.m., followed by a minute's silence. It is also part of the [[Anzac Day#Dawn service|Dawn Service]] in [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]]. Like the Menin Gate, the [[Australian War Memorial]] incorporates the ode into its Last Post Ceremony, where it is read by a member of the [[Australian Defence Force]] (ADF) and is followed by a minute of silence and a bugler playing the "Last Post".{{citation required|date=May 2020}}

===== Ode of Remembrance =====
Typically, the "Ode of Remembrance" is recited in [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]] and the [[Pacific Islands]] as follows:

{| class="wikitable"
! [[English language|English]] original
! [[Māori language|Māori]] translation<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.contactairlandandsea.com/2015/07/30/remembrance/ | title=Māori version of the Ode of Remembrance changed | date=30 July 2015 }}</ref>
|-
| <poem>They shall not grow old,
As we who 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.</poem>
| <poem>E kore rātou e kaumātuatia
Pēnei i a tātou kua mahue nei
E kore hoki rātou e ngoikore
Ahakoa pehea i  ngā āhuatanga o te wā
I te hekenga atu o te rā
Tae noa ki te arangamai i te ata
Ka maumahara tonu tātou ki a rātou
Ka maumahara tonu tātou ki a rātou</poem>
|}
New Zealanders echo the last line "We will remember them" whereas Australians typically respond both the last line and then with "Lest We Forget".<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title='Lest we forget' as a symbol of commemoration in Australia |url=https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/commemoration/symbols/lest-we-forget |url-status=live |archive-url= |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=Australian Government Depart of Veterans' Affairs}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Ode of Remembrance and other poems |url=https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/commemoration/event-planning/ode-of-remembrance |url-status=live |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs}}</ref>

==== Canada ====
In Canadian remembrance services, a French translation is often used along with or instead of the English ode.<ref>{{cite web|title=Guide des cérémonies commémoratives|date=11 February 2020|url=http://www.veterans.gc.ca/fra/remembrance/get-involved/remembrance-day/guide-to-commemorative-services|publisher=Anciens Combattants Canada}}</ref>

A quotation appears on the [[Calgary Soldiers' Memorial]] and on the cenotaph in Grandview Park, [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]].

==== Malaysia ====
A memorial in [[Teluk Intan]] commemorating the fallen of both the First and Second World Wars, which was installed during the colonial period in British-ruled [[British Malaya|Malaya]], includes a few lines from the poem.

==== "Lest we forget" ====
The line "Lest we forget", taken from [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s poem [[Recessional (poem)|"Recessional"]] (which incidentally has nothing to do with remembering the fallen in war), is often added as if were part of the ode and repeated in response by those listening, especially in Australia. Several [[Boer War]] memorials are inscribed with the phrase, showing its use pre-World War I. In the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Singapore, the final line of the ode, "We will remember them", is repeated in response. In Australia people respond with "We will remember them" followed by "Lest we forget".<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":3" /> In Canada, the second stanza of the above extract has become known as the Act of Remembrance, and the final line is also repeated.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Guide to Commemorative Services|date=11 February 2020|url=http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/get-involved/remembrance-day/guide-to-commemorative-services|publisher=Veterans Affairs Canada}}</ref>

===Musical settings===
[[Edward Elgar|Sir Edward Elgar]] set to music three of Binyon's poems ("The Fourth of August", "To Women", and "For the Fallen", published within the collection ''The Winnowing Fan'') as [[The Spirit of England|''The Spirit of England'', Op. 80]], for tenor or soprano solo, chorus, and orchestra (1917). His setting of "For the Fallen" sparked some controversy as it was published after another setting of the same poem by the composer [[Cyril Rootham]] in 1915. Neither composer was responsible for this, and Elgar initially offered to withdraw but was persuaded to continue by the literary and art critic [[Sidney Colvin]] and by Binyon himself.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=FaSyL3VEtvkC&q=elgar+studies ''Elgar Studies'']. [[J. P. E. Harper-Scott]], [[Julian Rushton]], p. 225</ref> There is an eighth stanza in the version that was set to music by Elgar.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://anzacday.org.au/words-of-remembrance/|title=Words of Remembrance - ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee|website=anzacday.org.au|access-date=2019-02-01}}</ref> An abridged version of Elgar's setting of "For the Fallen", called "With Proud Thanksgiving", was sung at the unveiling of the new [[Cenotaph, Whitehall|Cenotaph]] in Whitehall on 11 November 1920.<ref>Moore, p.750</ref>

"They shall grow not old..." was set to music by [[Douglas Guest]] in 1971, and has become a well-known feature of [[choral]] services on [[Remembrance Sunday]]. Nottingham-based composer Alex Patterson also wrote a setting of the text in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V46q4AY3u0|title = For the fallen - Alex Patterson|website = [[YouTube]]}}</ref> The text of "For the Fallen" has also been set by [[Mark Blatchly]] for treble voices, organ and trumpet (which plays "[[Last Post|The Last Post]]" in the background).<ref>[http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/tw.asp?w=W4021&t=GBAJY0339816&al=CDA67398 "For the Fallen" by Mark Blatchly], recorded by [[St Paul's Cathedral]] Choir on Hyperion Records</ref> In March 2015, a new musical setting was released by Gil Orms.<ref>[http://odeofremembrance.com/ "Ode of Remembrance" by Gil Orms]</ref>

===Popular culture===

* The title of the novel ''[[Time of our Darkness]]'', by South African author [[Stephen Gray (writer)|Stephen Gray]], is a reference to the last two lines of the poem: "As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, / To the end, to the end, they remain."
* [[Paul Bearer]] recited part of the poem as a tribute to wrestler [[Owen Hart]] on 24 May 1999 at the [[Raw is Owen]] memorial, the night after he died in the ring.{{Citation needed|date=October 2018}}
* The CD audiobook ''Artists Rifles'' (2004) includes a reading of "For the Fallen" by Binyon himself. The recording itself is undated and appeared on a [[78-rpm]] disc issued in Japan. Other Great War poets heard on the CD include [[Siegfried Sassoon]], [[Edmund Blunden]], [[Robert Graves]], [[David Jones (poet)|David Jones]], and [[Edgell Rickword]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ltmrecordings.com/artistsriflesaudioCD.html|title=Automatic Redirect}}</ref>
* The song "Berliners", from [[Roy Harper (singer)|Roy Harper]]'s 1990 album ''[[Once (Roy Harper album)|Once]]'', uses the 4th stanza as its opening verse, preceded by a recording of a Remembrance Day ceremony where the same stanza was recited.{{Citation needed|date=October 2018}}
* "...For Victory", a song from [[...For Victory|the eponymous album]] by British death metal band [[Bolt Thrower]], contains a quote from Binyon's poem.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.boltthrower.com/lyrics/forvictory.php|title=Bolt Thrower : Lyrics: ...For Victory | access-date=5 February 2025 }}</ref>
* In the closing scene of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode titled "[[The Family of Blood]]", the vicar at a [[Remembrance Day]] ceremony reads "For the Fallen/Ode of Remembrance" to those who have gathered, including elderly survivors of the war.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=7658 | title=Doctor Who Transcript - 03x09 - Family Blood | publisher=foreverdreaming.org | access-date=16 November 2019 }}</ref><ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/Bh78KWOkiGE Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20121021141908/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh78KWOkiGE&;amp;feature=youtube_gdata Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh78KWOkiGE| title = Family of Blood Epilogue | website=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* The title of [[Peter Jackson]]'s film ''[[They Shall Not Grow Old]]'', produced to commemorate the 100th anniversary of [[Armistice Day]] in 2018, perpetuates the common misquotation of Binyon's "They shall grow not old."

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMSLP2|work=The Spirit of England, Op.80 (Elgar, Edward)|cname=For the Fallen (No. 3 in ''The Spirit of England'')}}

== Bibliography ==

*{{Cite book|title=Laurence Binyon: Poet, Scholar of East and West|last=Hatcher|first=John|publisher=Oxford UP|year=1995|isbn=9780198122968|pages=[https://archive.org/details/laurencebinyonpo00hatc/page/188 188{{en dash}}211]|chapter=For the Fallen|chapter-url-access=registration|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/laurencebinyonpo00hatc/page/188}}
* {{Cite journal|last=Moffett|first=Alex|date=2007|title="We Will Remember Them": The Poetic Rewritings of Lutyens' Cenotaph 1|url=http://wlajournal.com/wlaarchive/19_1-2/moffett.pdf|journal=War, Literature & the Arts|volume=12|pages=228{{en dash}}246|access-date=2 February 2019|archive-date=2 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202095245/http://wlajournal.com/wlaarchive/19_1-2/moffett.pdf|url-status=dead}}
*{{cite book | last=Moore | first=Jerrold N. | title=Edward Elgar: a Creative Life | location=Oxford | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=1984 | isbn=0-19-315447-1}}

==External links==
{{Wikisource|For the Fallen}}
* [http://www.ltmrecordings.com/artistsriflesaudioCD.html Audiobook CD featuring reading of "Ode" by Binyon]
* [https://archive.today/20140805144304/http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=2&ref=Add_MS_45160 Manuscript copy of "For the Fallen" at the British Library]

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