Remembrance Day 2021
Poem: “A Soldier’s Cemetery” by John William Streets.
In commemoration of Armistice Day marking the day World War 1 ended at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month, we join together with the nation to remember the service and sacrifice of all those that have defended our freedoms and protected our way of life.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning.
We will remember them.
Saluting all our Forces – past and present with this thought provoking poem,
A Soldier’s Cemetery by John William Streets.
A Soldier’s Cemetery
Behind that long and lonely trenched line
To which men come and go, where brave men die,
There is a yet unmarked and unknown shrine,
A broken plot, a soldier’s cemetery.
There lie the flower of youth, the men who scorn’d
To live (so died) when languished Liberty:
Across their graves flowerless and unadorned
Still scream the shells of each artillery.
When war shall cease this lonely unknown spot
Of many a pilgrimage will be the end,
And flowers will shine in this now barren plot
And fame upon it through the years descend:
But many a heart upon each simple cross
Will hang the grief, the memory of its loss.
- By John William Streets
