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lirik lagu gerald finzi - farewell to arms, op. 9

the helmet now an hive for bees becomes
and hilts of swords may serve for spiders’ looms;
sharp pikes may make
t~~th for a rake;
and the keen blade, th’arch enemy of life
shall be degraded to a pruning knife
the rustic spade
which first was made
for honest agriculture, shall retake
its primitive employment, and forsake
the rampires steep
and trenches deep
tame conies in our brazen guns shall breed
or gentle doves thеir young ones there shall feed
in muskеt barrels
mice shall raise quarrels
for their quarters. the ventriloquious drum
like lawyers in vacations, shall be dumb
now all recruits
but those of fruits
shall be forgot; and th’unarmed soldier
shall only boast of what he did whilere
in chimney’s ends
among his friends

his golden locks time hath to silver turned
o time too swift! oh swiftness never ceasing!
his youth ‘gainst time and age hath ever spurned
but spurned in vain; youth waneth by increasing
beauty, strength, youth are flowers but fading seen;
duty, faith, love are roots and ever green
his helmet now shall make a hive for bees
and lover’s sonnets turn to holy psalms
a man~at~arms must now serve on his knees
and feed on prayers which are age’s alms
but though from court to cottage he depart
his saint is sure of his unspotted heart

and when he saddest sits in homely cell
he’ll teach his swains this carol for a song:
blest be the hearts that wish my sovereign well
curst be the soul that think her any wrong
goddess, allow this aged man his right
to be your bedesman now that was your knight

- lirik lagu gerald finzi

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