Lest we Forget
AN ANZAC DAY ODE
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Today is 25th April which is officially ANZAC day in Australia. In country pubs today the words ‘Come in spinner’ can be heard echoing in backrooms, in laneways and on pool tabletops on this momentous occassion as men play and children go wild for (watching) Two-Up. Christopher Hanlon® continues the honourable tradition with an exert from a poem which evokes deep memories for many Australians. This famous ANZAC poem first appeared in The Times London before acquiring popular currency in the Antipodes where it was reprinted by many newspapers in memory of the ANZACS. The four famous lines written by Englishman Laurence Binyon are:
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.
