O Valiant Hearts, Arkwright, Harris, Emma Brown, Menin Gate

Описание: O Valiant Hearts
Poem Sir John Stanhope Arkwright
Music Rev. Dr. Charles Harris

Mezzo-soprano Emma Brown
Royal Symphonic Band of the Belgian Air Force
Conductor Captain Matty Cilissen

On the ninetieth anniversary of the Menin Gate, Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The Menin Gate commemorates over 54,000 missing soldiers from the Ypres Salient. During this song, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission let 20,000 poppy petals flutter down from the gate.


O Valiant Hearts

O valiant hearts who to your glory came
Through dust of conflict and through battle flame;
Tranquil you lie, your knightly virtue proved,
Your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

Proudly you gathered, rank on rank, to war
As who had heard God’s message from afar;
All you had hoped for, all you had, you gave,
To save mankind—yourselves you scorned to save.

Splendid you passed, the great surrender made;
Into the light that nevermore shall fade;
Deep your contentment in that blest abode,
Who wait the last clear trumpet call of God.

These were His servants, in His steps they trod,
Following through death the martyred Son of God:
Victor, He rose; victorious too shall rise
They who have drunk His cup of sacrifice.

O risen Lord, O Shepherd of our dead,
Whose cross has bought them and Whose staff has led,
In glorious hope their proud and sorrowing land
Commits her children to Thy gracious hand.