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He wrote For the Fallen while working at the British Museum and did not go to the Western Front until 1916 when he went as a Red Cross orderly.Īfter the Armistice, Binyon returned to the British Museum printed books department where he was in charge of Oriental prints and paintings. Lawrence Binyon was born in Lancaster in 1869.Īt Oxford University he won the Newdigate prize for poetry and was influenced by the work of William Wordsworth.īinyon published two major volumes of poetry: Lyric Poems (1894) and Odes (1901). Only six manuscripts of the poem are known to exist. No manuscript containing any part of For The Fallen has been sold at auction for at least 40 years. The verse is being sold by Roy Davids, a collector of poetical manuscripts and a renowned expert. 'The poem, and its final verse in particular, became and remains today a dignified and elegiac expression of national grief.' 'When For the Fallen was first published in The Times in September 1914, casualties had started to mount and the promise of a speedy end to the war was already fading.
Now a rare copy of the verse, handwritten by Binyon during the war, is set to fetch £8,000 when it is sold at auction by Bonhams in London on April 10.īinyon – too old to enlist, but who volunteered as a medical orderly – may have scrawled the copy, which is being sold by a collector of manuscripts, for a soldier serving amid the horror of the front line.Ī spokesman for Bonhams, which is selling the manuscript, said: 'The copy for sale was written some time before 1918 on British Expeditionary Force (BEF) headed note-paper. Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,Īs the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, To the innermost heart of their own land they are knownĪs the stars that shall be bright when we are dust, They have no lot in our labour of the day-time īut where our desires are and our hopes profound,įelt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight, They sit no more at familiar tables of home They mingle not with laughing comrades again They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old Īge shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.Īt the going down of the sun and in the morning They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They went with songs to the battle, they were young, There is music in the midst of desolation Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal The Ode has been read at commemorative services in Australia since 1921, expressing the nation’s collective feelings of respect and loss for the service people who gave their lives during World War I, and in all conflicts since.With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,Įngland mourns for her dead across the sea.įlesh of her flesh they were, spirit of spirit, Appearing in The Times on 21 September 1918, the sentiments it expressed were in stark contrast to the tone of news reports and other poems at the time. He wrote it less than two months after the outbreak of World War I, in response to the heavy casualties suffered by the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front. The Ode of Remembrance – often referred to simply as The Ode – is actually only the third and fourth stanzas of Laurence Binyon’s poem, For the Fallen. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:Īge shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.Īt the going down of the sun and in the morning They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted
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