What is the content of the poem in flanders field?

"In Flanders Fields" is a poem written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) of the Canadian Army. The poem commemorates the World War I soldiers who died on the Flanders fields. Flanders is located in the north of Belgium, near the border with France.

The story goes that, following one of the bloodiest battles of World War I, in the fields of Flanders in Western Europe, when the ground was completely churned up and muddied, thousands of red poppies sprang up. The seeds had lain dormant in the soil and, after being aerated with the churning of the soil from the soldiers' boots and fertilised with their blood, the poppies grew abundantly, springing forth new life from death.

The poem reads:

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 the 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.