In Jerusalem Fields

"In Jerusalem Fields" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the Exeron War by Canadian resistance member Alex McCrea. He was inspired to write it in an Exeron Fighters episode, "If Ye Break Faith With Us Who Die," after presiding over the funeral of Azkar, who lost and died in a fight over Lori Loud. According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrea, initially dissatisfied with his work, discarded it. "In Jerusalem Fields" was first published on the same episode of Exeron Fighters in most resistance newspapers.

Verse I
In Jerusalem's fields, the cyclamens blow

Between the glass coffins, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky...

The larks, still bravely singing, fly.

Scarce heard amid the fighting moves below...

Verse II
We are the Dead. Short days ago,

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

The dead were loved, and now we lie

In Jerusalem fields, in Jerusalem fields...

And now we lie in Jerusalem fields.

Verse III
Take up your 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 cyclamens glow

In Jerusalem fields, in Jerusalem fields...

<p style="text-align:center;">We shall not sleep, though cyclamens glow,

<p style="text-align:center;">In Jerusalem fields, in Jerusalem fields.