Laurence Binyon Quotes

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.

Laurence Binyon. He was Poet Laureate at the end of the Great War. He wrote it.” “What did he write?” “They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

Laurence Binyon’s poem “For the Fallen” was read in English and in Norwegian translation at the ceremony: “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: / Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. / At the going down of the sun and in the morning, / We will remember them.