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They shall grow not old, as we that

are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor

the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and

in the morning

We will remember them....


Rudyard Kipling conceived the inscriptions carved on the headstones and monumental sculptures of the commission's cemeteries. These monuments take three forms. One is a high columnar cross bearing a bronze sword known as the Cross of Sacrifice like this one in Suda ( Greece ). The second is a monolith, the Stone of Remembrance, on which are carved words from Ecclesiasticus, adapted by Kipling: "Their name liveth for evermore."