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Cello, Cello

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When you see... is based on the poem “When you see millions of bouthless dead” by Charles Hamilton Sorley.

When you see millions of the mouthless dead
Across your dreams in pale battalions go,
Say not soft things as other men have said,
That you'll remember. For you need not so.
Give them not praise. For, deaf, how should they know It is not curses heaped on each gashed head?
Nor tears. Their blind eyes see not your tears flow. Nor honour. It is easy to be dead.
Say only this, “They are dead.” Then add thereto, “Yet many a better one has died before.” Then, scanning all the o'ercrowded mass, should you Perceive one face that you loved heretofore,
It is a spook. None wears the face you knew.
Great death has made all his for evermore.

When you see... is a commission from Project DME and was written for Fie Schouten and Katharina Gross.

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
When you see...	Premiere	2023/Dec/19	O Canto das Sementes I	Casa Municipal da Cultura de Seia	Seia	Portugal	Katharina Gross (cello) Fie Schouten (clarinet)	Notes