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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
from For The Fallen - Laurence Binyon
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contemn
Thanks, Doc, I'd never noticed before. I always thought it was condemn.
From http://www.dictionary.com
con·temn (kn-tm)
tr.v. con·temned, con·temn·ing, con·temns
To view with contempt; despise. See Synonyms at despise.
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[Middle English contempnen, to slight, from Latin contemnere : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + temnere, to despise.]
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(this was posted last year, but it's always worth a reprise):
The Bravest Soldiers
by Walt Whitman
Brave, brave were the soldiers (high named to-day) who lived
.........through The fight;
But the bravest press'd to the front and fell, unnamed, unknown.
1888
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Binyon was born and lived in my adted city, Lancaster, where a plaque has been erected to his honour on the wall of the house where he lived.
But, apart from the poem quoted above, none of his other work seems to have survived.
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