(SUGGESTED INSCRIPTION PROBABLY NOT SUGGESTED BY THE COMMITTEE) <br /> <br />The hucksters haggle in the mart <br />The cars and carts go by; <br />Senates and schools go droning on; <br />For dead things cannot die. <br /> <br />A storm stooped on the place of tombs <br />With bolts to blast and rive; <br />But these be names of many men <br />The lightning found alive. <br /> <br />If usurers rule and rights decay <br />And visions view once more <br />Great Carthage like a golden shell <br />Gape hollow on the shore, <br /> <br />Still to the last of crumbling time <br />Upon this stone be read <br />How many men of England died <br />To prove they were not dead.<br /><br />Gilbert Keith Chesterton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/for-a-war-memorial/
