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          He was born Robert Laurence Binyon on August 10, in Lancaster, England and was the second of nine children born to clergyman Frederick and Mary Binyon.

        1. Laurence Binyon was an English poet, dramatist, and art historian, a pioneer in the European study of Far Eastern painting.
        2. Robert Laurence Binyon, CH (10 August – 10 March ) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar.
        3. Robert Laurence Binyon, CH, was born on 10th August in Lancaster in Lancashire, England to Quaker parents, Frederick Binyon and Mary Dockray.
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          5. Robert Laurence Binyon, CH (10 August – 10 March ) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar..

          For the Fallen

          Poem by Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), published in The Times newspaper on 21 September 1914.

          With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
          England mourns for her dead across the sea.
          Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
          Fallen in the cause of the free.

          Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal
          Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.
          There is music in the midst of desolation
          And a glory that shines upon our tears.

          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.

          They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
          Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
          At the going down of the sun and in the morning
          We will remember them.

          They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
          They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
          They have no lot in our labour of the