Futility (James Crawford)

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• (Posted 2020-01-02)  CPDL #56496:     

Editor: James Crawford (submitted 2020-01-02).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 81 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC ND

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General Information

Title: Futility
Composer: James Crawford
Lyricist: Wilfred Owen

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: S

Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 2020

Description: Futility is the seventh and last of a collection of songs based upon the poems of Wilfred Owen. It is not intended that this collection should be sung as a cycle. It may serve as part of a Remembrance Day event, or recital, or as a competition piece.

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Original text and translations

English text

Move him into the sun
gently its touch awoke him once.
At home whispering of fields half sown
Always it woke him even in France
Until this morning and this snow
if anything might rouse him now the kind old sun will know
think how it wakes the seeds woke once the clays of a cold star

Are limbs so dear achieved are sides fullnerved too hard to stir?
Was it for this? the clay grew tall?
Oh what made fatuous sunbeams toil to break earth's sleep at all?