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Quotation from In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
“Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The Torch: be yours to hold it high!”
In Flanders Fields, Lines 10-12 (In Flanders Fields and Other Poems (1919))
The dead charge the living to continue the war, using the image of a relay torch.
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)). (id in-flanders-fields-q3)
Virtues: Fortitude
