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channel firing - gerald finzi lyrics

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that night your great guns, unawares
shook all our coffins as we lay
and broke the chancel window*squares;
we thought it was the judgment*day

and sat upright. while drearisome
arose the howl of wakened hounds:
the mouse let fall the altar*crumb
the worms drew back into the mounds

the glebe cow drooled. till god called, “no;
it’s gunnery practice out at sea
just as before you went below;
the world is as it used to be:

“all nations striving strong to make
red war yet redder. mad as hatters
they do no more for christés sake
than you who are helpless in such matters

“that this is not the judgment*hour
for some of them’s a blessed thing;
for if it were they’d have to scour
h*ll’s floor for so much threatening …

“ha, ha. it will be warmer when
i blow the trumpet (if indeed
i ever do; for you are men
and rest eternal sorely need).”
so down we lay again. “i wonder
will the world ever saner be,”
said one, “than when he sent us under
in our indifferent century!”

and many a skeleton shook his head
“instead of preaching forty year,”
my neighbour parson thirdly said
“i wish i had stuck to pipes and beer.”

again the guns disturbed the hour
roaring their readiness to avenge
as far inland as stourton tower
and camelot, and starlit stonehenge

- gerald finzi lyrics

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