John Maxwell Edmonds
English classicist, poet and dramatist (1875-1958)
John Maxwell Edmonds (21 January 1875 – 18 March 1958) was an English classicist, poet and dramatist and the author of several celebrated martial epitaphs.
Quotes
edit- Went the day well? We died and never knew;
But well or ill, England, we died for you.- "On Some who died early in the Day of Battle", in The Times (6 February 1918)
- Variants: "Freedom" for "England"
- See also: Went the Day Well? (1942)
- When you go home, tell them of us, and say
‘For your to-morrows these gave their to-day.’- "For a British Graveyard in France", in The Times Literary Supplement (4 July 1918)
- Variants: "For your to-morrow we gave our to-day"
- See also: Yesterday's Enemy (1959)