Final verses

The final verses we're using are the following in this order:

1. Verse 3 from For The Fallen by Robert Laurence Binyon.
"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"

2.First three lines of verse 7 from Dead Man's Dump by Isaac Rosenberg
"The air is loud with death,
The dark air spurts with fire
The explosions ceaseless are."

3. Verse 2 from Dead Man's Dump
"The wheels lurched over the sprawled dead
But pained them not, though their bones crunched,
Their shut mouths made no moan,
They lie there huddles, friend and foeman,
man born of man and born of woman,
And shells go crying over them
From night till night and now."

4. Last verse from For The Fallen
"As the stars that are 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."

5.Last two verses from To Tony (aged 3) by Marjorie Wilson
"And when across the peaceful English land,
Unhurt by war, the light is growing dim,
And you remember by your bed
All those-the brave-you must remember him.

And know it was for you who bear him name
And such as you that all his joy he gave -
His love of quiet fields, his youth, his life,
To win that heritage of peace you have."

We felt that those were the verses that gave us the most meaning and material to work with. They went well together and we felt something when we read them. We got emotions from all the poems I picked out but these were the parts that we felt could sum up our message of remembering the soldiers and what they went through.