BINYON LAURENCE: (1869-1943) English Poet whose most famous work, For the Fallen, is used in Remembrance Sunday Services. Autograph Poem Signed, Laurence Binyon, two pages, 8vo, n.p. (London), n.d., on the blind embossed stationery of the British Museum. Binyon has boldly penned a fair copy of his famous World War I poem Men of Verdun (1917) which comprises ten stanzas using a rhyming scheme, commencing 'There are five men in the moonlight/ That by their shadows stand/ Three hobble, humped on crutches/ And two lack each a hand' and concluding 'For history's hushed before them/ Ane legend springs afresh/ Verdun, the name of thunder/ Is written on their flesh'. Signed by Binyon at the conclusion. An attractively presented poem, and rare in this form.
BINYON LAURENCE: (1869-1943) English Poet whose most famous work, For the Fallen, is used in Remembrance Sunday Services. Autograph Poem Signed, Laurence Binyon, two pages, 8vo, n.p. (London), n.d., on the blind embossed stationery of the British Museum. Binyon has boldly penned a fair copy of his famous World War I poem Men of Verdun (1917) which comprises ten stanzas using a rhyming scheme, commencing 'There are five men in the moonlight/ That by their shadows stand/ Three hobble, humped on crutches/ And two lack each a hand' and concluding 'For history's hushed before them/ Ane legend springs afresh/ Verdun, the name of thunder/ Is written on their flesh'. Signed by Binyon at the conclusion. An attractively presented poem, and rare in this form.
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