<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341524" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>1887</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">From Clee to heaven the beacon burns, <br>The shires have seen it plain, <br>From north and south the sign returns <br>And beacons burn again. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look left, look right, the hills are bright, <br>The dales are light between, <br>Because 'tis fifty years to-night <br>That God has saved the Queen. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, when the flame they watch not towers <br>About the soil they trod, <br>Lads, we'll remember friends of ours <br>Who shared the work with God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To skies that knit their heartstrings right, <br>To fields that bred them brave, <br>The saviours come not home to-night: <br>Themselves they could not save. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It dawns in Asia, tombstones show <br>And Shropshire names are read; <br>And the Nile spills his overflow <br>Beside the Severn's dead. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We pledge in peace by farm and town <br>The Queen they served in war, <br>And fire the beacons up and down <br>The land they perished for. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;God save the Queen&quot; we living sing, <br>From height to height 'tis heard; <br>And with the rest your voices ring, <br>Lads of the Fifty-third. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, God will save her, fear you not: <br>Be you the men you've been, <br>Get you the sons your fathers got, <br>And God will save the Queen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Edward+Housman">Alfred Edward Housman</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341524" data-title="1887 de Alfred Edward Housman" data-description="From Clee to heaven the beacon burns, The shires have seen it plain, From north and south the sign returns And beacons burn again. Look left, look right, the hills are bright, The dales are light between, Because 'tis fifty years to-night ..."></div> </div> </div>

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