Tune: The Supreme Sacrifice
('O valiant hearts')
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Remembering those who have gone before
Or caught up now in conflict, battle, war
Their memory is blessed, poppies arrays
Show their service of past and present days
Remembering your sacrifice, Lord, we
In wonder of your life given up free
Offering of yourself upon the cross
Taking our place to there redeem our loss
For you yourself said, Greater love has none
That one lay down their life for friends, so Son
Of God, you chose to pay price for our sins
That we may new life as your friends begin
Lord, by your Spirit, give peace in our days
That unto you shall issue songs and praise
Your kingdom come, your will on earth be done
In heart and mind we not forget e'en one
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Author:
orchidee (
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- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 10.10.10.10. metre. The clip has not got all the verses, but is one of the most poignant I found.
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Great write - let's not forget them.
Thanks M. My 'waffle'is below! Psst, I never told ya of the 'Headmasters Assemblies' held at intervals, when he could waffle on about all and sundry, apart from Remembrance.
Never went to Assemblies - being atheist I had dispensation to miss them and sat in the classroom with a good book and one teacher who had to sit with me. Do they have religious type assemblies these days?
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I was ambivalent towards Remembrance in some of my school days. Some years we had a Colonel-type teacher who waffled on with 'I remember when....' which we dreaded each November!
I re-visited the school some years later. Maybe tyring to get on the 'good side' of this teacher, who could be gruff. I wish I had not vistied. It turned out that I got barked at (not like Fido!) and 'Pull your socks up, man' lecture.
He had a ridiculous way of standing to attention - kept swaying back and forth on his heels. The pupils mocked it in secret.
Oh well, not to speak ill of the dead (by now).
Hi Orchidee,
A beautiful and great tribute to those who have sacrificed their lives to protect us and the nation.
Keep writing ✍ and safe during lockdown.
FineB
Thanks Fine.
Onward christian soldaten mitt der cross of jesus leading us to kill and maim..... oh yes, I'm sure this was in the teachings of jesus.
Disgraceful.
So it's man again, making religion what he/she wants it to be, for his/her own ends.
How about the first two lines of Verse 3? Leave Jesus out of it if you wish, and just see it as a true comment in life - though He said it.
Yes orchidee your first sentence hits the nail on it's head but not hard enough cos it's man making GOD into something for his own ends. That is what every church has done for centuries. Taken GOD from the truly spiritual men and made it into something with which to control minds with. Wouldn't be able to do that starting today because western man is too aware but thousands,. hundreds of years ago the common man was ignorant and the church used fear (lets face it they tortured people) to indoctrinate minds. You've inherited that legacy.
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..... I enjoyed this ... very good Steven ..
Thanks Neville.
Good one Orchi.
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
Andy
Thanks Gold. The only thing we gotta FORGET is my singing!
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