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Pratik Gandhi (cond​.​)​, Felix Del Tredici (bass trombone & narrator) with String Quintet - Smoke: Part 1 (A Reading of 2​/​Lt. Bernard Freeman Trotter)

from The Great War Sextet: Canadian War Poetry with Trombone & Strings by Benjamin Harry Sajo

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Determined to serve but initially declined due to poor health by the Canadian Corps, he found his way into a commissioned position as a lieutenant in the British Army. A graduate student at the the University of Toronto, a lover of nature and full of youthful promise, he was killed by a shell in 1917. He was 26 years old.

lyrics

All the windy ways of man
Are a smoke that rises up.
— TENNYSON

Breath of the mine,
Wraith of the oak—
Who shall divine
The riddle of smoke?

Weave me a cloud,
Cover the sky;
Weave me a shroud:
Life is a lie!

Weave it not thin,
Weave it not fine;
Vivid as sin,
This, the design:

Beings of might
Toiling with death;
Frail things afright,
Gasping for breath;

Cities of doom,
Blackened and grim;
Battle-cloud’s gloom;
Charred forests dim;

Crater and pit,
Furnace and pyre;—
Boldly in-knit
With garlands of fire.

Weave it!
The dust lies in the urn:
So at last must
All the world burn.

Take then your toll,
Weaver of cloud.
Follows the whole:
Weave me a shroud.

Weave me it true,
Weave me it well—
Weave me it, weave me it,
Vapour of hell.

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from The Great War Sextet: Canadian War Poetry with Trombone & Strings, released June 6, 2020

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Benjamin Harry Sajo Nunavut

Benjamin Sajo is an Ottawa-based composer and educator. His love of comparative mythology, multiculturalism, folklore, social justice, literature and visual art inspires a writing imbued with a post-modern aesthetic: mixing the tools and tricks of the past into decidedly modern, fiery, magic.

Education:
Master of Music, McGill University, 2013

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