Ieper Poems - Poems about Ieper

...The diggers looked around As they marched over the ground Of the Menin Gate at Ieper town And their chiseled names shone brightly down When they passed through the arch of glory As the nightly......

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...Two lonely bugles play As they have done on other days Echoing around the Menin Gate 32000 times since those days of hate Ieper on the Western Front Fed the troops into the Great War brunt Bu......

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...The Lions were an 1822 sculpture Placed at the Ieper Cloth Hall And in 1862 they were moved to the Menin Gate In the Great War Ieper was evacuated Then used as the Depot town for the British Arm......

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...It was a bright cold sunny morning The mist lifted without warning As we walked through the cemetery gate It had been nearly a hundred years wait Outside of the Ieper Menin Gate We had come to......

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...At Ieper in Belgium there is Bloomfield's Cathedral Arch Through the town's cobbled streets we did proudly march For all British Nations troops who were garrisoned here In the Great War we stood o......

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