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The Fields of Flanders “Where are the Dead?” “There are no Dead.” Maeterlinck (“The Blue Bird”) This is a Canadian sketch by J A Shepperson, emphasizing that high-hope on which the true Culture of the world has been building for twenty centuries. Mankind, outside of Germany, believed that all the doctrines of materialism break down just because they reckon the dead as dead, and take no heed as to what a man’s labors here shall make him fitted for when he passes beyond earth’s Death. Hence when the Britons and Canadians sacrificed their lives by thousands on the “Flanders Fields” through all the years of the War, their faith was symbolized by Maeterlinck’s allegory in “The Blue Bird.” He makes the trembling searchers for the terrible field of death find it beautiful instead; for it blossoms into a field of lilies.

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Notre référence

UMG25A01_031

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Droits gérés

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25,6Mo (2,1Mo) / 19,9cm x 32,3cm / 2352 x 3810 (300dpi)

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