For the Fallen

At an Armistice Day remembrance service attended by the Tenth Doctor, Martha Jones, and Tim Latimer, a Vicar recited an ode to the deceased of World War I. Its text included:


 * They have no lot in our labour of the day time.
 * They sleep beyond England's foam
 * They went with songs to the battle.
 * They were young, straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow
 * They were staunch to the end against odds unaccounted
 * They fell with their faces to the foe
 * They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old
 * Age shall not weary them, nor the year condemn
 * At the going down of the sun and in the morning
 * We shall remember them

(TV: The Family of Blood)

Behind the Scenes

 * "For the Fallen", also known as "Ode of Remembrance", is a poem by Laurence Binyon, first published in The Times in 1914. It is never named in The Family of Blood, but enough of it is recited for it to be easily identifiable. However, the order in which the stanzas are recited is the "wrong order", relative to the real world. They are placed in this wiki in the order in which they were recited in Doctor Who, as per T:NO RW.
 * The poem has multiple thematic meanings in the context of the story; referring to the fallen of the First World War, the ageless and imprisoned Family of Blood, and the Doctor and Martha, due to their status as time travellers, being ageless compared to those "who are left", and must experience time in a linear fashion.