to withdraw but was persuaded to continue by the literary and art critic Sidney Colvin and by Binyon himself. There is an eighth stanza in the version that was set to music by Elgar. An abridged version of Elgar's setting of "For the Fallen", called "With Proud Thanksgiving", was sung at the unveiling of the new Cenotaph in Whitehall on 11 November 1920. "They shall grow not old..." was set to music by Douglas Guest in 1971, and has become a well-known feature of choral services on Remembrance Sunday. Nottingham-based composer Alex Patterson also wrote a setting of the text in 2010. The text of "For the Fallen" has also been set by Mark Blatchly for treble voices, organ and trumpet (which plays "The Last Post" in the background). In March 2015, a new musical setting was released by Gil Orms. Popular culture The title of the novel Time of our Darkness, by South African author Stephen Gray, is a reference to the last two lines of the poem: "As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, / To the end, to the end, they remain." Paul Bearer recited part of the poem as a tribute to wrestler Owen Hart on 24 May 1999 at the Raw is Owen memorial, the night after he died in the ring. The CD audiobook Artists Rifles (2004) includes a reading of "For the Fallen" by Binyon himself. The recording itself is undated and appeared on a 78-rpm disc issued in Japan. Other Great War poets heard on the CD include Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, David Jones, and Edgell Rickword. The song "Berliners", from Roy Harper's 1990 album Once, uses the 4th stanza as its opening verse, preceded by a recording of a Remembrance Day ceremony where the same stanza was recited. "...For Victory", a song from the eponymous album by British death metal band Bolt Thrower, contains a quote from Binyon's poem. In the closing scene of the Doctor Who episode titled "The Family of Blood", the vicar at a Remembrance Day ceremony reads "For the Fallen/Ode of Remembrance" to those who have gathered, including elderly survivors of the war. The title of Peter Jackson's film They Shall Not Grow Old, produced to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day in 2018, perpetuates the common misquotation of Binyon's "They shall grow not old." References External links Bibliography