Flame out, you glorious skies, Welcome our brave; Kiss their exultant eyes; Give what they gave. Flash, mailed seraphim, Your burning spears; New days to outflame their dim Heroic years. Thrills their baptismal tread The bright proud air; The embattled plumes outspread 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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON A SOLDIER FALLEN IN THE PHILIPPINES by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY WRITTEN IN IRELAND by MARY (CUMBERLAND) ALCOCK PSALM 58 (VERSION 2) by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THEODORE ROOSEVELT by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE SELENE by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH THE LAUGH by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |