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Sleep dearest, great warriors lie with you | ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD IN TIME OF WAR | ||
Whole peoples drift loose | |||
Sleep, dearest, | |||
How should we stand firm when so many firm have gone before, | great warriors lie with you, | ||
Whole peoples drift loose about you. | |||
How should we stand firm | |||
when so many firm have gone before, | |||
and the same vast currents flow about us? | and the same vast currents flow about us? | ||
Sleep safely. We pitiless, we remain, | |||
gazing where we were: | Sleep safely. We pitiless, we | ||
before wisdom, in age old half standing, | remain, gazing where we were: | ||
silent above the screams of the ages, | before wisdom, in age old | ||
half standing, silent above | |||
the screams of the ages, blind | |||
children, folded as when we came. | |||
WILLIAM WALLIS | |||
Free translation from the German: | |||
Auf den Tod eines Kindes, | |||
Paul Fleming, b. 1609, d. 1640 | |||
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CPDL #20528: 
- Editor: Tim Blickhan (submitted 2009-11-25). Score information: Octavo, 4 pages, 66 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: On the Death of a Child in Time of War
Composer: Tim Blickhan
Lyricist: William Walliscreate page
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1991
Description: No. 3 of "Songs for the Abandoned"
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Original text and translations
English text
ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD IN TIME OF WAR
Sleep, dearest,
great warriors lie with you,
Whole peoples drift loose about you.
How should we stand firm
when so many firm have gone before,
and the same vast currents flow about us?
Sleep safely. We pitiless, we
remain, gazing where we were:
before wisdom, in age old
half standing, silent above
the screams of the ages, blind
children, folded as when we came.
WILLIAM WALLIS
Free translation from the German:
Auf den Tod eines Kindes,
Paul Fleming, b. 1609, d. 1640