Futility (James Crawford)
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- 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?