SABATON - In Flanders Fields (Official Lyric Video)
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- The Official Lyric Video for In Flanders Fields by Sabaton from the album The Great War.
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========= In Flanders Fields LYRICS =========
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
========= Historic Fact ==========
Known for his poem, ‘In Flanders Fields’, John McCrae was a military doctor and a Major of the 1st Brigade of Canadian Field Artillery. He wrote the poem after witnessing the death of a close friend.
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Known for his poem, ‘In Flanders Fields’, John McCrae was a military doctor and a Major of the 1st Brigade of Canadian Field Artillery. He wrote the poem after witnessing the death of a close friend. Read more about John McCrae 👉 www.sabaton.net/historical-facts/john-mccrae-dies
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Awesome
GREAT VIDEO
Long awaited and long appreciated.
I love your songs
I will drink ab Beer with Joakim
"Sabaton is rock, its badass!"
"In Flanders fields....."
*Loud sobbing and wailing*
facts
Yes. True
*Ballad of Bull*
@@saitamapunch8035 the hammer has fallen
@@Bushwhackerdksadder noises
Remember the 20 million who lost their lives.
Remember the generation that was lost to the world.
Remember the 65 million men who fought the war that ended nothing.
Remember that in war, there is no glory, only young boys resting side by side.
Remember them, and never forget.
Lest we forget
Lest we forget.
*SALUTE*
When you see global politics today: oh yes, we already forgot
@@generaltitan3885 and just proves that if we do not learn from our mistakes, we are bound to repeat them.
Now think about what Einstein said about how he doesn't know what WWIII will be fought with, but knows WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I can watch realistic depictions of cruelty that actually happened during wartime in film without blinking twice, but listening to this poem has me fighting back tears for minutes afterwards.
I'm not a psychiatrist or anything like that but i believe it's because our minds associate the images of war with horror and a soft song with a sorrowful chorus with empathy and well..... sorrow
I feel you dude :(
Same. It passes faster if you don't fight it
True poetry is spoken from the soul and it resonates within us.
Me, too. Gore horror movies? No problem. Documentary on human tragedies? Nightmares and crying spells.
They shall not grow old. Least we forget friends the Brave Young Man that Gave their lives to a war that was in fact a tragedy without numbers and sides.
Lest we forget
Lest we forget
Lest we forget
'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.'
Ok, I did do a copy/paste job here but I didn't want to get that part of the poem wrong
All gave some...... *some gave all*
We had to sing this song in 2nd grade for Veterans Day. We didn’t understand the weight it carried, or the meaning of it, but it still struck a nerve with me
It’s drilled into every Canadian every year what this poem means
@El Bearsidente Fuck off tankie
@El Bearsidente so you're saying that some canadian soldier who had lost his friend and wrote this poem about the poppies and flanders and ww1 supports imperialism?
I always viewed the "Take up our quarrel with the foe" part to be more symbolic with a less tangible foe. Time. Memory. The nevending battle against the slow march of time and the inevitable forgetfulness that follows. To me, it was saying "Don't forget us and what we died for," albeit in a far more poetic way. That's just my take.
@El Bearsidente are you just trolling or are you actually really that stupid?
We’re learning about WWI in AP World History and everyone thinks it’s weird I have this poem memorized
Its actually really cool that you have memorized it :)
It's required here in Canada lol. Good for you!
The're weird for not memorizing it
@Steven Tsakiris Those who won't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
It is also fun to memorize some poems. I have memorized "Der Erlkönig", it has 8 Strophes and was pretty difficult to learn, but also fun.
Sabbaton: sings a badass song about the pride of the kriegzmarine
Also sabaton:
@Jacob Operiano it's spelled failure not "navy"
@@anthonymolinaro2985the word navy wasnt even in the aentence
Get this played in my school this November
Really? We like your school 😎
The luck !!
It is a sign of America’s lack of stability, that seeing get, along with the type of song made me worried about a school shooting
I'm French lol
@@noblealpha3382 first of all why ruin something wholesome second I didn’t understand your grammar at all
A true Soldier doesnt fight because he hates whats in Front of him, he fights because he loves whats behind him.
Soldiers trying to fight their way out of the enemy surrounding unit, with their backs to the enemy.
That’s very wise my man
Wrong again! He fights because the most evil men in the world arrange wars.
@Herr Schütz No, it is you who are too blind to see the cause of war. Some say all wars are banker's wars, I merely define those "bankers" as evil.
@Herr Schütz I agree to the extent of what the soldier has been led to believe. As in most wars however, the soldier finds he has more in common with the soldier on the other side than he does with his supposed "leaders". With the exceptions of the CIA army of ISIS, the demons are behind and not in front.
"They shall not grow old, as we grow old
Age shall weary them, nor the years condemn
We Will Remember them, we will remember them.
Lest We forget."
The Ode, often recited at The Last Call at Meinen Gate in Ypres, Belgium
The first line is
They shall grow not old
It is the fourth stanza of a poem by Laurence Binyon
I have had the honour to recite it under The Gate at 8 seven times, so far......
I've visited the gate when I was 8.
It left a giant impression and ever since.
I've been interested in history and it's wars.
And I've been more interested in my own family's tradition to honor the ww1 losses
This is just a choir singing John McCrae's famous poem, and decidedly not metal; but it is also my favorite song on this amazing album.
Look at Emma Brown's rendition at Ypres and the Menin Gate
STANDING IN THE LINE OF FIRE!!!
Oh wait, this isn't the future of warfare...
"If ye break faith with us who die..."
*Starts sobbing*
No. This *is* the future of warfare. As well as the past. As well as the present. War knows no nation, brother...
Sabaton doesn't make sad songs
In Flanders Fields, The Ballad of Bull, Long Live The King, The Final Solution, 7 years of war, ruina imperii, uprising, purple heart, dead soldier's waltz, cliffs of Gallipoli, Inmate 4859, heart of iron, hammer has fallen, The End Of The War To End All War, Price Of A Mile, Lifetime Of War, Great War (Yes, you can join), Angels Calling, to hell and back: *Allow us to introduce ourselves*
7 years of war
7 years of war, ruina imperii, uprising, purple heart, dead soldier's waltz, cliffs of Gallipoli
Could you also say inmate 4859 is a sad song since Witold Pilekci endured all that only for no one to rescue him when he thought they would and then sentenced to death by Soviet-influenced Poland
I would also add heart of iron as well as the end of the war to end all wars to a certain extent
Hammer Has Fallen: *Sad laughter*
I’m not crying, you’re crying.
And secretly you too
"sob" we're all crying "sob"
we both crying
*sobbing loudly while pulling a uno reverse card*
Quit cutting onions damnit
This song is about history, so I wonder how long it will take RUclips to demonize it
Demonize and demonetize. 😁
There was no war in ~Ba Sing Se~ 1914.
It is a poem written by a Canadian field medic who fought and eventually died in WW1.
Let me correct that line:
This song is about real history, so I wonder how long it will take RUclips to demonetize and then demonize it
@@alucardvancrosshellsing138 it is not a song. It is a very old and very famous poem
Next week: The future of warfare: Truly Official lyric video
Almost: The Future of Warfare: Building Blocks Official Video
Amidst the tears, I am very proud to be a Canadian and say that this poem is part of my country's history and probably our most famous export besides hockey.
Canadian soldiers made the first gas masks in response to German's using chemical warfare like the use of mustard gas on Canadian trenches so you could say that the gas mask in our most famous export due to us originally making them lol, and yeah proud Canadian here as well :)
Another popular export would be the lead from Francis Pegahmagabow
You forgot about maple syrup eh
@@NovaLight1990 first Canadians to receive the Victoria Cross after repelling that gas attack
Together with British soldiers they pissed on rags and held them to thier mouths while shooting back
@@AColonDashSix lol and? everything we use have started with something simple but became more complex as the idea evolved XD but please let's try not to start any arguments in the comments section of remembrance songs like this one
This is one of those songs that I can't listen to without crying my eyes out. I imagine a bloody battle with hundreds of thousands of bodies torn apart bleeding on the ground. One soldier weeping over the body of an enemy, and the brothers of that enemy comforting him as they weep together at the folly of war.
In case you have yet to see it, I highly recommend you look up on RUclips the following: "extra credits christmas truce"
@@absolarix extra credits is a trash channel full of sjw nonsense
Leon Kennedy I agree but history is history just because of the way they are now doesn’t mean we can’t remember what they were before. Now they are just dumb shit
103 years ago today, the guns had finally fell silent. many wouldn't get to see this day Including my great grandfather, he would die just a few weeks before, still wondering in his journals if the boy from Bristol he met during the christmas truce was faring well. Lest We Forget.
Lest we forget.
I'm getting lots of weird looks because of my remembrance tattoo. "Why?" Cause it's the least what I could do. Dedicate a silent memory everyday. They did sacrifice more than a piece of skin. I was really moved how respectful version of this poem did my favorite band made. Thank you! 💙💛
Wear it proudly my friend. At least you understand the sacrifice given by the fallen.
Wear that tat with pride, my friend. The memory of those that we have lost will never be forgotten. It’s thanks to you that we still have a shred of decency left to honor the fallen.
Are you really trying to get some reflected glory of off the lost generation?
Macker Micker How ya mean?
Ricky May Get well soon Yes, Monty Python was and still is very silly. It’s good to have a laugh now and again, yeah?
Listened to this this morning when someone in a discord server mentioned it had been 107 years since the end of WW1.
“Metal is the devils music!”
Sabaton: In Flanders Fields...
Me and everyone in the comment section: *LOUD SOBBING AND SCREAMING*
Everyone: Pff, Sabaton making sad songs? Right, and Canada has a great army.
Canadian poets and Sabaton: *Allow us to introduce ourselves.*
Our army was more than formidable at the time this poem was written
**looks at D-Day and Op Overlord/Neptune as a whole**
during WWI Canada had a formidable sized military hell the US didn't even enter WWI until April 6th 1917 that's 3 years after the war had already been going on
Happy Remembrance Day Everyone.
The poem has always been a great telling of the beauty and horrors of wars and this version is by far one of the best. May we never for get the sacrifice of the generations that came before and may we never repeat the horrors of the past
There is no beaty in war
@@gp2399 your right about war but its the little things in war that can be like watching a bird fly or a single flower growing where everything around it is dead. World war one was a turning point in history where the wars of horses and rank and rows of men facing each other gave way to modern weapons of machine gun,tanks, planes and chemical weapons. And finding any beauty amongst the carnage of war gave those men a moment of peace
I came today, 11th of November 2024, to listen to this beautiful song and pay my respects.
Never forget those brave souls. Such a pointless war, with only our memories in their lives and loves to redeem the tragedy, if even it can be called that. Rest in peace.
agreed
When a song hits you like a truck.
more like vibrations but ok
@@CoremanitetheNeko nice
@@CoremanitetheNeko *WHEN A SONG VIBRATES YOU LIKE A TRUCK*
I should make a Berserk outtakes reference, but I feel that's insensitive to the veterans who fought to protect our civil freedom.
This doesn’t hit like a truck, this hits like a 152mm shell hitting a panzer 1
"Good luck, everyone"~Captain Blackadder
That is still a sad ending to such a hilarious show
103 years ago now. Respects to all the men and woman who died in this conflct, the most pointless, brutal, yet important conflict in human history. Lest we forget
And the tens of millions who died from something the war made people ignore.
We shall never forget all who have passed on who fought in a war they thought would be the last major war... only for their Children and maybe even Grandchildren to fight in another war just 20 years later... may they rest in the fields of poppy’s forever and be at peace...
"Well I'm afraid it'll have to wait, whatever it was, I'm sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad... I mean who would've noticed another mad man around here... Good luck everyone" - Cpt. Blackadder
I'm from Belgium, (Flanders).
And most people still honor the losses of ww1. But it's slowly going away.
But Ypres is still doing it.
Every 8 pm, they play 'the last post' on trumpet. No matter what weather.
They continued it in ww2 but had to stop since Germany had taken Ypres. But the day they got it back. They started again.
And in my own family there's a little tradition. To find a blooming flower and place it in a vase. Every 11 November.
That tradition came because a German soldier died because he protected my great-great- grandmother.
She putted the flower in a vase to honor him, and it later became to honor evryone who died in the war.
Beautiful. Just beautiful. Love from Italy.
What a beautiful story
That moved me to tears.
Keep that tradition strong and alive from here until the end of all.
@@alexl6644 I will do my best to do so
We shall all remember the fallen from both sides
Me: The dislikes are the people who cried till they can't see the screen and wanted to press the like button but accidentally press the dislike button.
Also me: ok who tf dislike this video.
69th like
157...now
Exactly
thank you for pointing out my mistake now I can fix it
The people who disliked it prob didn't watch it and just dislike anything metal because "herr rock bad"
RIP To Soliders on all sides, may it never happen again.
agreed
But it did like a little over 20 years later
@@OhyeahMrKrabz ????? Its now 2020 and I wrote this just a month ago.
So "may it never happen again" is in the future.
Why do people who try and be smart.
Always look stupid. !!!
But history repeats itself
@@philiphalpin1997 But it did WW1 ended in 1918 but then in a matter of years Hitler came to power and in 1939 Germany invades Poland startinf WW2
Remembrance Day here in Canada and this is a big song for us and for this veteran. Thank you Sabbaton!
Happy Remembrance Day from Canada 🇨🇦
The regular metal songs are great but this deserves a lot of attention simply for how considerate it was for sabaton to put this in the playlist as respect for the dead. Thank you.
To the ones who fought in the trenches... to the ones who lost their lives in this grueling long war... to the ones who lost their homes... to the ones who lost their friends... their family... on both sides of the war... you will all always be remembered, for your legacy still rings today, in this "future 21st century". The sacrifices you've made are not in vain. The world is a cruel but beautiful place, and life is something we all should cherish as much as we can. To all of you who fought in the war... to all of you who sacrificed their lives to it... I wish you rest, for you are finally in peace.
Amazing tribute to all fallen who gave the ultimate sacrifice
102 years since the guns were silent.
Let's hope that the world will never have to endure such a cruel war ever again, even though it already has.
Lest we forget. RIP Uncle Otto a victim of this war.
I might not know who Uncle Otto is, but Rest In Peace to him, truly. Salutes up. 🫡
It has just occured to me that had this song been around in 2018, it would work phenomenally well as an ending to The Great War series.
Imagine: Indy and his crew bid a farewell with "I'm Indy Neidell; this was The Great War", the camera zooms out, and this song starts playing, with various World War I footage rolling slowly in the background.
105 years later, and mankind still hasn't learned...
Lest we forget.
It was said that the war ended not with a cheer but with silence. On the day peace was made; the battlefields fell, for a moment, silent. Perhaps maybe the soldiers couldn’t believe it or it’s perhaps they were too weary to celebrate because for 4 years, they’ve endured hell.
But one things for sure, the price for peace was too high and all we can do is never forget the payment soldiers made.
God bless all the troops and Happy Armistice Day.
Who ever making this lyric videos, respect. 😎👍
You making stunning lyric videos and this song is also awesome. 🎶
What u can hear in this video is not a song but rather poem written by Canadian medic in 1915(sry i don't remember his name 'cuz where I'm they do not teach us this beatiful...). He wrote after one his friends fell in battle of Ypres. I hope my mind is right in this beacause if its not sry I didn't mean to disrespect him or what he wrote.
@@boegris350 John McCrae
@@boegris350 its people singing the poem as a song.
Came back to listen to this again on Veterans day. Rest in Peace, uncle Meeker, VC may have taken you, but we'll never forget you.
To all who gave all. You are remembered. Memorial day is not cook outs, going to the beach. It's the ones who Kept this country free.
We so need those people now.
God bless
This song is totally different from what Sabaton usually does, yet it still fits their style in a way. There was a lot of times i was honestly expecting drums and guitars to come in, but it never happened. This song is a masterpiece of design and a truly amazing song.
Absolutely beautiful. I've read the poem many times, this is the first time I've heard it sung.
Thank you
Sabaton's Comment : 1 month ago
Upload date : Saturday, 7 of March 2020.
@Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz oh.
It'll be a Patreon vid released to the public.
This video was already released some time ago. I guess it was privatised and now open to public again.
I can't believe how much sabaton has grown since I first started listening to them
I know that people are allowed to have their own options, but who tf could dislike a beautiful poem about one of the saddest events in history.
"Loved and were loved and now we live" sends chills down my spine. Rest in peace to the soldiers that never made it home
Nov. 11, 2023
Exactly 105 years since the end of the First World War, or known at that time as the War to End All Wars.
But I guess it never ends...
My Great Great Grandfather was wounded in Flanders, he was an American Doughboy and was hit by a German artillery shell. When I showed this to my Great Grandfather (his son) he couldn’t help but get emotional. I can’t help but get emotional too.
here again to remember all those brave men's and women's who fought for their nations being part of a war formed up by old men's who know each other but dont kill each other.
Do not pray for easy lives, but to be better men.
We must remember the german and Austrian soldiers of ww1 who gave their lives, the civilians on both sides who died in the crossfire, those young people who were executed for desertion.
We must remember the german resistance in ww2 who fought against the nazis along with the soviets who liberated our nation from the nazi rule.
We must remember both the East and West germans who lost their lives to capitalism/capitalists.
We must remember the viet-cong, brave civilians who took the call to arms to fight imperialism.
We must remember the Cuban revolutionaries.
Lest we forget our brave soldiers.
I believe World War One was the last war that had respect in it. The central powers respected the allies, the allies respected the central powers. I hope all who died rest in peace.
You're probably right. The Old World died with that war. The world never recovered from that.
This... this song makes me cry everytime I hear it... it's the best on the whole album! I love it, I love it so much!
exactly 105 years ago today, a hellish war that claimed tens of millions of lives finally came to an end. remember every soldier, german, serbian, american, british, austro-hungarian, australian, ottoman, entente, central powers, they all died protecting what they thought was right. lest we forget.
Don't get me wrong, I love Sabaton. But when I saw this in the playlist I was a little worried they were gonna make a Metal rendition of it. But Sabaton was extremely respectful with this cover. Good on them.
I'm sure they would have done it justice as well by turning it into a rock ballad.
closing out an amazing heavy metal album with this beautiful tribute shows incredible class and heart!! it says that behind the stories and the songs are real people on all sides who suffered and died. thank you gemtlemen.
It is 11/11/2023 lest we forget...
I feel like we are forgetting
I bought 3 Sabaton CDs. This song was the last one on the third disc, and honestly... it took me by surprise hearing something so soothing after rocking out.
Let's give Sabaton credit for making songs about moments in history that should never be forgotten.
Lest we Forget 11. 11. 1918 - 11. 11. 2024
I am not ashamed to admit I cried while listening to this.
Listening to both End of the War to End All Wars and this on this day. Have a good 102nd anniversary and commemoration of Nov 11, Armistice Day. Lest we forget.
I remember when i was in england meeting family, on nov 11 at 11am everyone just stoped doing what they were doing and stood in silence to remember all the men that served in ww1 for 1 minute and after this someone started singing this song and everyone was huddled around them in silence while he sung. It was truly amazing to see how even though no one knew anyone who fought, could take time out of there day to remember this tragic event in history and honor those who fought and died.
Today: 11 AM, the 11th day of the 11th month, 105 years ago the "Great War" also known as "World War 1" ended. It was the deadliest war in history up to that point. 40 million civilian and military people died. This so-called "War to end all wars" ended nothing and has set a cycle of pain and suffering we see in wars today. From the Ukraine war happening because of a chain of events that started with the Tsar being removed from power, to Israel and Palestine fighting because of borders decided by France and The UK with the sykes-picot treaty. Even the Uyghur genocide that's happening right now can be linked to Japan being rewarded as imperialist as a result of WW1.
We have to remember that these people back in WW1 suffered and died hoping to make the world a better place. That hope rides with us now. Never forget their sacrifices, and never forget how costly peace is to get back when you lost it. I hope for all these modern conflicts to end peacefully and without any more bloodshed.
Never forget.
Just gorgeous! Very unexpected voices for such a text. This makes the text even deeper into me. Standing ovation! From Russia with love
Enough to make a grown man cry, and that's okay.
Love from the US. May we never forget.
i post this at 11:11, november, 2020, 102 years since the great war ended
may all who lost their lives have their rest
lest we forget
Wow!!!! When I saw this as a track on The Great War CD. I wondered how you were going to do this one as a metal band. You did a amazing job!!! You brought this song, that as a Canadian was played at every Remembrance Day celebration in school growing up. John McRae would have proud!!! Lest we Forget!
1:40 When I first heard the song (not knowing the lyrics), I heard "We shall not see, the poppies grow". I am genuinely happy knowing its not what it was what I thought
Many of them didn't.
As a Canadian who is passionate about military service thank you sabaton
You know this song was a total surprise when i first heard it. And i have loved it ever since. It is just fantastic. Love the video
Very deep song.
Happy remembrance day everyone we must respect these men each side we must end war war is just fighting people in different uniforms some committed war crimes some didn’t
This hits so differently and so hard when you listen to it at the exact time the war ended: on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. When the guns fell silent. Finally, it was at last, all quiet on the western front. May god bless all fallen warriors of all nations. They were all human beings just like us, but were put there. Likewise, may we curse war, and love all nations and peoples of the earth as though they were our brothers and sisters, because in the end, when you are bleeding out in a trench, and you and likewise the enemy are screaming for help, or for their mothers, or are weeping for their dead comrades, every conflict becomes small, and that's when you realize that in your shared humanity, we will all always be brothers and sisters, in the end.
Lest we forget.
I always cry when I hear this, as someone who lost two family members in there own battles, and as a Canadian, I'm happy Sabaton, did this
11/11/2024
106 years after the End of The Great War
Lest we forget.
Rare Footage, Sabaton didn't use Metal Equipment as He's Respecting for those who died on the 1st world war
Goddamnit invisible cuting oignons ninja. When I heard that version for the first time at the end of the album, I ended up in tears as it was just so beautiful. It is such a contrast compared to the other songs from the album, yet I don't think you could have picked a better song to close that album
Haven't cried in a long time. This changed that. I love this band so much.
Though tyrants rise and fall like the waves
The creatures within this vast ocean are not returned
Only resting upon the shores of our rememberance
Lest we forget
Listening to this last summer on a trip to Flanders was truly an experience. It’s something to listen to this song in the safety of home, but to be were so many perished it has to be the first time I genuinely shed a tear or two with a song.
The other time was on a trip to the Normandy cemetery.
This is one of the few poems/songs that make me cry. Its impossible not feel sad, if you truly know and understand what happend in those fields, to the men in both sides. What makes me feel even more sad is that the man who wrote this was there, seing that slaughter every day and all the time.
I remember when i picked this album up, I just put it in and let it play all the way through, not skipping a song. When this song started to play, I actually felt myself starting to well up a bit and had to wipe my eyes to see if I was tearing up.
Oh, wow, I just realized the significance of making this the 11th track on an 11-song album.
103 years ago, and nearly ten years since the last of the men who saw and fought in the hell of the great war, breathed their last and left this world to us. May their memory live forever.
This was a great way to end the album. Makes us remember those who have fallen. Great job, Sabaton. You really outdid yourselves. And yes, this might be an end of my terrible puns, if you decide to not release more about the Great War
thanks Sabaton , from Canada .🌺
Sabaton, masters of many genres of music
This song always seems to play either plat in the middle or the end of my sabaton session. And surprisingly it's quite nice when it does come on. I've never skipped this song.
This song hits differently today…on November 11, 2021….
Lest we forget
@@Votssadon 11am on november 11 1918 WW1 ended
I am listening to it on november 11th as well. just a year later
My literacy teacher said that, due to the 3rd stanza making this about vengeance rather than anti-war, people omit it nowadays. That's never happened to me, but he also said that John McCrae died a month after due to a cut he got while performing surgery becoming septic, so IDK.
I don't take "we shall not sleep" as being about vengeance, though I'm not a literacy teacher and do not know the intent of the stanza; I think if we intentionally ignore our history and continue to partake in war, it's as though we have fought just to fight more, and who can rest soundly knowing that.