When you see the millions of the mouthless dead (2015)
James MacMillan
Plays: 1932
(opening)
Duration: 01 mins 50 secs
The Elysian Singers/Sam Laughton
Signum SIGCD575
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When you see the millions of the mouthless dead
Across your dreams in pale battalions go,
Say not soft things as other men have said,
That you’ll remember. For you need not so.
Give them not praise. For, deaf, how should they know
It is not curses heaped on each gashed head?
Nor tears. Their blind eyes see not your tears flow.
Nor honour. It is easy to be dead.
Words by Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895-1915)
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