There are waters
Adapted and set to music by Sue Casson
There are waters
There are waters blown
There are waters
Blown by changing winds
There are waters
There are waters blown
Stormy waters
Blown by changing winds to laughter
And lit by the rich skies all day
There is safety
Shored in the dark tides of a world at rest
War knows no power
We are secure and blest
Unshaken and free we shall stay
And after
Frost with a gesture
Stays the waves that dance
And wandering loveliness
He leaves a white, unbroken glory
A gathered radiance
A width
A shining peace
Under the tranquil night
From Rupert Brooke's War Sonnets
IV The Dead and II Safety
Recorded by The Phoenix Choir, Casterton School in December 2010 under the directiion of David Chapman
Bass Baritone Dominic Rose
'There is in each of us a sundial factor of our mentality. We are inclined only to count the sunny hours. Moreover after exhausting wars men tend to suffer a weariness of mind. This lassitude can make them shrink away from facing the limitations of human nature. It can produce a facile scepticism about their evil deeds. New generations dislike reading the history of the gas chambers, and so the fact than men claiming to be civilised put millions to death in the gas chambers slip from history.'
David Maxwell Fyfe
