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benjamin britten - recitative and choral lyrics

still tho’ the scene of possible summer recedes
and the guns can be heard across the hills
like waves at night:
though crawling suburbs fill
their valleys with the stench of idleness like rotting weeds
and desire unacted breeds its pestilence

yet still below the soot the roots are sure
and beyond the guns there is another murmur
like pigeons flying unnotice’d over continents
with secret messages of peace: and at the centre
of wheeling conflict the heart is calmer
the promise nearer than ever it came before

europe lies in the dark
city and flood and tree;
thousands have work’d and work
to master necessity
to build the city where
the will of love is done
and brought to its full flower
the dignity of man
pardon them their mistakes
the impatient and wavering will
they suffer for our sakes
honour, honour them all
honour, honour them all
dry their imperfect dust
the wind blows it back and forth
they die to make man just
and worthy of the earth

- benjamin britten lyrics

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