Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LEST WE FORGET, by ROBERT BRYAN FLANARY


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LEST WE FORGET, by                    
First Line: I stood alone where sleep the dead
Last Line: The curse of war. Let live who may!
Subject(s): War


I stood alone where sleep the dead
Of many a nation's brave and fair.
There came no sound to mar the calm;
There came no stir of morning air.

But up from mounds where markers white
Stand guard of all that sleeping host,
There came the truth for which they died;
The whole as one -- each man his post.

Yet we of all the world who live,
Can do a greater deed than they,
By keeping from each nation's door
The curse of war. Let live who may!





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