Happy Thanksgiving! An old post from nostamj

[Horse with no Name]

:cry:
It is so timely. Thank you Jeff!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=692658

For the Fallen, Laurence Binyon (9/21/1914)

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 a 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 uncountered:
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 contemn.
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 at home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
As the stars are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end they remain.

[proud patriot]

1. Miss You Jeff

:loveya:

[Bunny]

2. That's very beautiful.

And Jeff was a beautiful man, wasn't he? Thanks for posting that.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. K&R for Jeff.

Awesome sentiment and post!:cry:

:kick:

[redqueen]

4. awww

:cry:

[NMDemDist2]

5. dang! I miss that guy a bunch

:cry:




thanks for the post

[babylonsister]

6. I remember nostamj with such fondness. He was such an

integral part of DU when I first found this place. Thanks, HwnN.

[Horse with no Name]

7. He surely was.

He was here in my first days at DU. I sure miss his writings.