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while we were in Exmouth, we spent a little time in the Strand, at the War Memorial where we noticed a beautiful inscription..
"Decades of easy peace may go their way
And time and tide will drift us far apart -
But you who shared our savage Yesterday
Will hold the highest places in our heart. "
Muriel Brine of the Devon Heritage Site kindly emailed with the complete poem and some more info..
"It's a beautiful poem, Jolyon so here's the rest of it:
Finest of mortal friends, I'll not forget
When the war's a faded memory in the land
Which once stood tensely in the closing net,
I'll think of what is past - and understand.
Your's was a truthful voice among the lies
Unshaken by the falsehoods that were rife
You were the men with level, fearless eyes
Who lived with death, yet still believed in life.
Laughter was your's, that held no bitter sting
That bubbled up more quickly than the rest.
Your steady friendship was a sacred thing
And I who held it was doubly blest.
Decades of easy peace may go their way
And time and tide will drift us far apart -
But you who shared our savage Yesterday
Will hold the highest places in my heart.
If you go to Portsmouth, you will also see it on their Memorial. It was written by a young RAF officer at the time his best friend was killed in WW2. His name Peter Roberts and he was a Flight Lieutenant.
