An Officer's Salute - a photo on Flickriver

            The annual poppy symbols flaunt 
Perennial sorrow;
Gratitude pride will not vaunt
Tomorrow.

I leave the cenotaph,
The unctuous adulation of the cleric;
I crave sea-silences, to laugh,
Or to be sick!

Here, between tide and tide,
In the place of dead men's bones,
Here, where the grey gulls glide
And the wind moans;

With weed-cerements, green bands,
In pools of the ebb-tide flow,
With froth of spume on wetted sands
Like snow.

Drift-water, reveal the wrack
And the wreckage of wars;
Outward go, then, inevitably back,
While I pause

To remember them, laughing, young,
Remember the tales they told,
The lewd jokes, the songs that were sung,
Of old.

To remember the pubs, the dances, the drink,
(Left, but a little time),
The women, seduced with a wink
And a gin and lime!

To recall the clean, boy-faces, so resigned
On embarkation day;
The saddened girls whom they left behind
In the family way!

But not the blood of battles, the stench,
And the screaming fears;
Not the grovelling down in a shallow trench,
Or the tears;

Nor even the sight of the steel-torn guts
And the mangled limbs....
Nor the Church Parade behind Nissen huts
Singing hymns;

And how they prayed as the Padre prayed
For the Proven Cause;
Proud, perhaps, of the part they played....
And I pause

Here, with the spume-flecked waves
Of the endless tide,
To forget the rows of regimented graves
Where brave men died.

   

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Burghclere (show map)

Taken on: November 11, 2012

Tags:

Burghclere

Hampshire

village life

Armistice Day

Remembrance Sunday

11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th Month

in Memorial

War dead

paying respect

time to remember

D800E

nikkor af-s 35mm f/1.4g

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Sets appears in: • Remembrance Sunday at Burghclere, Hampshire

Groups appears in: • *Hampshire, Berkshire, Surrey & Dorset (England, UK)* • Nikon FX more » • British War Memorials • Nikon 35mm f1.4 AF-S • REMEMBER THEM « less

Camera: Nikon D800E, f/8.0, 1/100 sec, 35mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D800E
Lens:	AF-S Nikkor 35mm f/1.4G
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.01 sec (1/100)
Focal Length:	35mm
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Scene Capture Type:	Landscape
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Aperture 3.4.2
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