As yearly, We Shall Remember

Remembrance: Old Soldiers at the Cenotaph

The Bath chair or the Zimmer frame,

The agèd, gnarled, claw-like hand:

Was it to this that heroes came

In England’s green and pleasant land?

Do generations give just due

To those who faced the direst foe:

The Senior Service and the Few,

The BEF of long ago?

Burma – (Blenheim, Ramillies –),

The Mons Canal, El Alamein,

The ancient wars that won the peace

Are figured in their names again;

The trenches of the Kaiser’s war,

The aerodromes at grass in Kent,

The surge of s...