Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

These lines address the dead in a tone of communal mourning and gratitude. The “silent tents of green” evokes graves covered by grass, imagined as temporary encampments, while “fragrant flowers” suggests ritual acts of remembrance—decorating burial places as a public pledge not to forget. The contrast between “Yours has the suffering been” and “The memory shall be ours” frames a moral exchange: the fallen bore pain and sacrifice, and the living inherit the duty of commemoration. The stanza thus treats memory as an ethical responsibility, turning private grief into collective civic or familial obligation.