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Binyon

British

/ ˈbɪnjən /

noun

( Robert ) Laurence . 1869–1943, British poet and art historian, best known for his elegiac war poems "For the Fallen" (1914) and "The Burning of the Leaves" (1944)

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Its title comes from the 1914 poem “For the Fallen” by Lawrence Binyon.

From Fox News • May 24, 2019

“They Shall Not Grow Old,” which takes its name from the Laurence Binyon poem “For the Fallen,” has already played in the U.K., where it earned Jackson the best reviews of his career.

From Washington Times • Dec. 14, 2018

TJ Binyon, Pushkin's biographer, even suggests the play is "rather conservative", since it deals with a troubled time that ended only with the accession of the Romanovs.

From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2012

“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old,” says the Ode to Remembrance, drawn from a poem entitled “For the Fallen,” written by Laurence Binyon in 1914.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2010

Binyon of Badsey supplied some of the historical details and information about the ancient roads.

From Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Savory, Arthur H.

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