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Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.\" — John McCrae, In Flanders Fields, Lines 6-9 (In Flanders Fields and Other Poems (1919)).","url":"/works/in-flanders-fields/#quotes"},{"id":"in-flanders-fields-q3","slug":"in-flanders-fields","title":"In Flanders Fields","author":"John McCrae","text":"Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The Torch:  be yours to hold it high!","speaker":"The Dead","location":"Lines 10-12","edition":"In Flanders Fields and Other Poems (1919)","context":"The dead charge the living to continue the war, using the image of a relay torch.","themes":["war-violence","honor-shame"],"medicalTags":[],"verified":true,"frequentlyCited":false,"virtues":["fortitude"],"copyrighted":false,"citation":"\"Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The Torch:  be yours to hold it high!\" — John McCrae, In Flanders Fields, Lines 10-12 (In Flanders Fields and Other Poems (1919)).","url":"/works/in-flanders-fields/#quotes"},{"id":"in-flanders-fields-q4","slug":"in-flanders-fields","title":"In Flanders Fields","author":"John McCrae","text":"If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.","speaker":"The Dead","location":"Lines 13-15","edition":"In Flanders Fields and Other Poems (1919)","context":"The closing warning ties the rest of the dead to the faithfulness of the living, and returns the refrain.","themes":["death-mortality","honor-shame"],"medicalTags":[],"verified":true,"frequentlyCited":true,"virtues":["justice"],"copyrighted":false,"citation":"\"If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.\" — John McCrae, In Flanders Fields, Lines 13-15 (In Flanders Fields and Other Poems (1919)).","url":"/works/in-flanders-fields/#quotes"},{"id":"kennedy-inaugural-address-q1","slug":"kennedy-inaugural-address","title":"Inaugural Address","author":"John F. 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