12+ Laurence Binyon For The Fallen Poem Background. With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, england mourns for her dead across the sea. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
They were staunch to the end against odds uncountered:
In australia and new zealand the 'ode' is recited whenever the fallen are commemorated. His most famous work, for the fallen, is well known for being. With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children fallen in the cause of the free. The poem's fourth verse is now used all over the world during services of remembrance, and is.