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| Description | This page is for collaborations from June 2005 onwards with other musicians online...
(earlier collaborations, with Jean-Pierre Boutineau, Burkhard Mohr, Manchester Cathedral Voluntary Choir, Bruce Paine, Tubalate, Reinhold Behringer, Paul Wehage, Ed Gold, Bill Sveglini, Mike Roberts, Lorin Swelk, Mike Starke, Philip Goddard, Frans Cronje and many others can be found on our various sites). |
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| Information for song "The Unconquered Dead" | | | | |  | Last in the series of Mike Robert`s settings of poetry by John McCrae. More "classical" in feel and strangely light-hearted in the piano at times, a sort of Danse macabre with its dark underlay. |  Play
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| | Song Story | Not we the conquered! Not to us the blame
Of them that flee, of them that basely yield;
Nor ours the shout of victory, the fame
Of them that vanquish in a stricken field.
That day of battle in the dusty heat
We lay and heard the bullets swish and sing
Like scythes amid the over-ripened wheat,
And we the harvest of their garnering.
Some yielded, No, not we! Not we, we swear
By these our wounds; this trench upon the hill
Where all the shell-strewn earth is seamed and bare,
Was ours to keep; and lo! we have it still.
| | Song Lyrics | We might have yielded, even we, but death
Came for our helper; like a sudden flood
The crashing darkness fell; our painful breath
We drew with gasps amid the choking blood.
The roar fell faint and farther off, and soon
Sank to a foolish humming in our ears,
Like crickets in the long, hot afternoon
Among the wheat fields of the olden years.
Before our eyes a boundless wall of red
Shot through by sudden streaks of jagged pain!
Then a slow-gathering darkness overhead
And rest came on us like a quiet rain.
Not we the conquered! Not to us the shame,
Who hold our earthen ramparts, nor shall cease
To hold them ever; victors we, who came
In that fierce moment to our honoured peace.
| | Song Statistics | | Song Serial Number: | | 277 | | Date of first upload: | | Sunday July 10th, 2005 | | Date of last update: | | Sunday July 10th, 2005 | | Total downloads and listens: | | 17 | | Total amount sold: | | $0.00 |
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