Conscious 2nd Edition (James Crawford)

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  • (Posted 2020-01-02)  CPDL #56499:       
Editor: James Crawford (submitted 2020-01-02).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 85 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC ND
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General Information

Title: Conscious 2nd Edition
Composer: James Crawford
Lyricist: Wilfred Owen

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: S

Genre: SecularArt song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 2020
Description: Conscious (2nd edition) is the third of seven songs based upon the poems of Wilfred Owen. It may serve as part of a Remembrance Day event, or a recital or competition.

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Original text and translations

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His fingers wake, and flutter; up the bed.
His eyes come open with a pull of will,
Helped by the yellow mayflowers by his head.
The blind-cord drawls across the window-sill…
What a smooth floor the ward has! What a rug!
Who is that talking somewhere out of sight?
Three flies are creeping round the shiny jug…
‘Nurse! Doctor!’—‘Yes, all right, all right.’

But sudden evening muddles all the air.
There seems no time to want a drink of water.
Nurse looks so far away. And here and there
Music and roses burst through crimson slaughter.
He can’t remember where he saw blue sky...
The trench is narrower. Cold, he’s cold; yet hot-
And there’s no light to see the voices by …
There is no time to ask...he knows not what.