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Ivor Gurney: Song of Pain and Beauty

from The Pity Of War (2015) by Thomas Oboe Lee

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O may these days of pain,
These wasted-seeming days,
Somewhere reflower again
With scent and savour of praise.
Draw out of memory all bitterness
of night with Thy Sun’s rays.
And strengthen Thou in me
the love of men here found.
And eager charity,
that, out of difficult ground
spring like flowers in barren deserts, or
like light, or lovely sound.
A simpler heart than mine
might have seen Beauty clear
where I could see no sign
of Thee, but only fear.
Strengthen me, make me to see Thy Beauty always
in every happening here.

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from The Pity Of War (2015), released June 19, 2015

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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