Re: OT: Remembrance Day/Veterans Day

On Nov 11, 3:40�pm, "W. Baker" <wba...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Kurt <kurtwheeling1...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

: Otis, thanks for posting the verse on this day of remembrance. This
: has always been one of my favorites:

: "Ashes Of Soldiers"
: by Walt Whitman

Thanks, Kurt. �I was no familiar with the poem, but i do like it. �

I am trying to locate a poem by Wilfred Owen that was used int Benjamin
Britten's A War Requium. �It is about Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac
with the sruel ending of Abraham not listening to God and slaying his son.. �
Obvioulsy related to old men sending their sons to die for the old men's
honor, etc. �I wonder if anyone has a copy of the poem. �I am a bad
googler adn don't get out to the library easily these days.

Wendy

I think this is the one you are referring to:

"The Parable of the Young Man and the Old" by Wilfred Owen

So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
And as they sojourned, both of them together,
Isaac the first-born spake, and said, My Father,
Behold the preparations, fire and iron,
But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?
Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps,
And builded parapets the trenches there,
And stretched forth the knife to slay his son.
When lo! an angel called him out of heaven,
Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,
Neither do anything to him. Behold,
A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.
But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.



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