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Nov 9, 2013 - 9:28 AM
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Timmer
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I hope Josh doesn't mind that I've started a new thread, the old one was getting slow to load.
This poem was written by Canadian Field Doctor Lt. Col. John McCrae after one of his friends had been killed at Ypres, Belgium.
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 our 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.
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Same here:
Maybe Rupert Brooke's popular WWI-poem "The Soldier", although a bit overripe, catches the "Paradise lost"-feeling of Vaughan Williams's Pastoral Symphony even better:
"If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven."
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And now:
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I've been on a bit of a roll digging out my old Lou Reed and Best of Velvet Underground albums. Sound as fresh and innovative to me as they were thirty plus years ago.
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American composer Arnold Rosner, who wrote 8 symphonies (in a style not too far removed from Ernest Bloch) and a lot of music for concert band, has passed away at 68.
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