posted on 2024-05-02, 18:52authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
Flame out, you glorious skies, Welcome our brave, Kiss their exultant eyes; Give what they gave. Flash, maild seraphim, Your burning spears; New days to outflame their dim Heroic years. Thrills their baptismal tread The bright proud air; The embattled plumes out- spread Burn upwards there. Flame out, flame out, O Song! Star ring to star, Strong as our hurt is strong Our children are. Their blood is England's heart; By their dead hands It is their noble part That England stands. England---Time gave them thee; They gave back this To win Eternity And claim God's kiss.
History
Identifier
3292.txt
Creator
Rosenberg, Isaac (1890-1918)
Date
1977
Date Created
01/01/1977
Temporal Date
31/12/1977
Type
Poem
Rights
The Isaac Rosenberg Literary Estate. As published in Rosenberg, Isaac; Bottomley, Gordon [ed.]; Harding, Denys [ed.], The Collected Poems of Isaac Rosenberg. London: Chatto and Windus, 1977. Preliminaries and editorial matter omitted.