Robert Laurence Binyon - For The Fallen. - Paeroa. New Zealand.
S 37° 22.815 E 175° 40.518
60H E 382720 N 5862120
A stone memorial plaque on Primrose Hill in Paeroa bears the words of Robert Laurence Binyon's famous poem For The Fallen, in particular the four lines from the fourth stanza which adorns numerous war memorials throughout our country.
Waymark Code: WM907W
Location: North Island, New Zealand
Date Posted: 06/07/2010
Views: 12
Etched in black marble stone on the memorial atop Primrose Hill:
"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."
These four lines from the poem "For the Fallen" written in September 1914 by Robert Laurence Binyon are read every year at Armistice services across Britain,and the Commonwealth and feature as an inscription for thousands of memorials.
Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), the poet and art critic, was born in Lancaster in 1869. He worked at the British Museum before going to war, having studied at Trinity College, Oxford where he won the Newdigate poetry prize. Whilst on the staff of the British Museum he developed an expertise in Chinese and Japanese art.
During the War he served with the Red Cross, visiting the Front in 1916. Binyon was already in his mid-forties when he wrote the poem For the Fallen in September 1914. It is the poem for which he will always be remembered.
Aside from his poem For The Fallen (1914), which adorns numerous war memorials, Binyon published work on Botticelli and Blake among others. He returned to the British Museum following the war. His Collected Poems was published in 1931.
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Memorial on Primrose Hill, Paeroa. North Island.
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