War Requiem

This film contains some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.

BELL TOLLS

'It seemed that out of battle I escaped

'Down some profound dull tunnel,

'long since scooped

'Through granites which titanic wars had groined.

'Yet also there, encumbered sleepers groaned,

'Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred.

'Then, as I probed them, one sprang up and stared

'With piteous recognition in fixed eyes,

'Lifting distressful hands as if to bless.

'And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, -

'By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.'

'With a thousand pains that vision's face was grained;

'Yet no blood reached there from the upper ground.

'And no guns thumped, or down the flues made moan.

' "Strange friend," I said,

' "Here is no cause to mourn." '

' "None,"' said that other. "Save the undone years,

' "The hopelessness. Whatever hope is yours,

' "Was my life also; I went hunting wild

' "After the wildest beauty in the world,

' "Which lies not calm in eyes, or braided hair,

' "But mocks the steady running of the hour,

' "And if it grieves, grieves richlier than here.

' "For by my glee might many men have laughed,

' "And of my weeping something had been left,

' "Which must die now." '

' I mean the truth untold.

' The pity of war,

' the pity war distilled.'

-# Requiem

-Requiem

-# Requiem aeternam

-Requiem aeternam

-# Requiem

-Requiem aeternam

-# Requiem aeternam

-Requiem aeternam

-# Requiem aeternam

-Requiem aeternam

-# Dona eis

-Dona eis

# Domine

# Et lux perpetua

# Et lux perpetua

# Luceat eis

# Luceat eis

# Requiem aeternam

# Dona eis Domine

# Requiem aeternam

# Dona eis

# Te decet hymnus Deus in Sion

# Et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem

# Et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem

# Et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem

# Exaudi orationem meam

# Exaudi orationem meam

# Ad te omnis caro veniet

# Ad te omnis caro veniet

# Ad te omnis caro veniet

# Ad te omnis caro veniet

-# Requiem

-Requiem aerternam

-# Requiem aeternam

-Requiem aeternam

# Domine

-# Et lux perpetua

-Et lux perpetua

-# Luceat eis

-Luceat eis

# Requiem aeternam

# Dona eis, Domine

# What passing bells for these who die as cattle?

# Only the monstrous anger of the guns

# Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle

# Can patter out

# Their hasty orisons

# No mockeries for them

# From prayers or bells

# Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs

# The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells

# And bugles calling for them from sad shires

# What candles may be held to speed them all?

# Not in the hands of boys

# But in their eyes

# Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes

# The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall

# Their flowers, the tenderness of silent minds

# And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds

BELL TOLLS

# Kyrie eleison

BELL TOLLS

# Christe eleison

BELL TOLLS

# Kyrie eleison

# Dies irae

# Dies illa

# Solvet saeclum in favilla

# Teste David cum Sibylla

# Teste David cum Sibylla... #

BRASS INSTRUMENTS PLAY

FANFARE PLAYS

#.. Quantus tremor est futurus

# Quando Judex est venturus

# Cuncta stricte discussurus

# Cuncta stricte discussurus... #

# Tuba mirum spargens sonum

# Per sepulchra regionum

# Coget omnes ante thronum

# Coget omnes ante thronum

# Coget omnes ante thronum

# Mors stupebit

# Mors stupebit et natura

# Cum resurget creatura

# Judicanti

# Judicanti responsura

# Judicanti responsura

# Judicanti responsura

# Judicanti responsura... #

# ..Bugles sang

# Saddening the evening air

# And bugles answered

# Sorrowful to hear

# Bugles sang

# Bugles sang

# Voices of boys were by the river-side

# Sleep mothered them and left the twilight sad

# The shadow of the morrow weighed on men

# Bugles sang

# Voices of old despondency resigned

# Resigned

# Bowed by the shadow

# Shadow of the morrow

# Slept

# Liber scriptus proferetur

# In quo totum continetur

# Unde mundus judicetur

# Judex ergo cum sedebit

# Quidquid latet, apparebut

# Nil inultum

# Nil inultum

# Remanebit, remanebit

# Quid sum miser tunc dicturus

# Quid sum miser tunc dicturus

# Quid sum miser tunc dicturus

# Quid sum miser tunc dicturus

# Quem patronem rogaturus

# Quem patronem rogaturus

# Quem patronem rogaturus

-# Cum vix justus

-Cum vix justus

-# Cum vix justus

-Cum vix justus

-# Cum vix justus

-Cum vix justus

# Sit securus?

# Securus?

# Rex tremendae majestatis

# Rex tremendae majestatis

# Rex tremendae

# Majestatis

# Qui salvandos salvas gratis

# Rex tremendae majestatis

# Qui salvandos salvas gratis

# Salva me, fons pietatis

# Rex tremendae

# Majestatis

# Salva me... #

# Out there

# We've walked quite friendly up to Death

# Sat down and eaten with him, cool and bland

# Pardoned his spilling mess-tins in our hand

# We've sniffed the green thick odour of his breath

# Our eyes wept

# But our courage

# But our courage didn't writhe

# But our courage didn't writhe

# He's spat at us with bullets And he's coughed shrapnel

# We chorused when he sang aloft

# We whistled while he shaved us with his scythe

# Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!

# We laughed at him

# We leagued with him Old chum

# No soldier's paid to kick against his powers.

# We laughed

# We laughed

# We laughed

# Knowing that better men would come

# And greater wars

# When each proud fighter brags

-# He wars on Death

-For Life

# Not men

# For flags... #

# ..Recordare Jesu pie

# Quod sum causa tuae viae

# Ne me perdas

# Ne me perdas illa die

# Quarens me, sedisti lassus

# Redemisti crucem passus

# Tantus labor non sit cassus

# Ingemisco, tamquam reus

# Culpa rubet vultus meus

# Supplicanti parce Deus

# Qui Mariam absolvisti

# Et latronem exaudisti

# Mihi quoque spem dedisti

# Mihi quoque spem dedisti

# Mihi quoque spem dedisti

# Inter oves locum praesta

# Et ab haedis me sequestra

# Statuens

# Statuens in parte dextra

# Inter oves locum praesta

# Et ab haedis me sequestra

# Confutatis maledictis

# Confutatis maledictis

# Flammis acribus addictis

# Voca me cum benedictis

# Voca me cum benedictis

# Confutatis maledictis

# Confutatis maledictis

# Oro supplex et acclinis

# Cor contritum quasi cinis

# Gere curam mei finis

# Mei finis

# Confutatis maledictis

# Confutatis maledictis

# Confutatis maledictis

# Flammis acribus addictis

# Confutatis maledictis

# Confutatis maledictis

# Voca me cum benedictis

# Voca me cum benedictis

# Quasi cinis

# Gere curam mei finis

# Confutatis maledictis

# Confutatis maledictis

# Confutatis maledictis

# Be slowly lifted up

# Thou long black arm

# Great gun towering toward Heaven

# About to curse

# Reach at that arrogance

# Which needs thy harm

# And beat it down

# Before its sins

# Grow worse

# But when thy spell be cast

# Complete and whole

# May God curse thee

# And cut thee from our soul!

# Dies irae

# Dies illa

# Solvet saeclum in favilla

# Teste David cum Sibylla

# Teste David cum Sibylla

# Solvet saeclum in favilla

# Solvet saeclum in favilla

# Teste David cum Sibylla

# Teste David cum Sibylla

# Teste David cum Sibylla

# Teste David cum Sibylla

# Quantus tremor est futurus

# Quando Judex est venturus

# Cuncta stricte discussurus!

# Lacrimosa

# Lacrimosa

# Dies illa

# Lacrimosa

# Lacrimosa

# Qua resurget

# Ex favilla

# Ex favilla

# Judicandus

# Homo reus

# Homo reus

# Homo reus

# Homo reus

# Huic ergo parce Deus

# Huic ergo parce Deus

# Move him

# Move him into the sun

# Gently

# Gently

# Its touch awoke him once

# At home

# At home

# Whispering of fields unsown

# Always it woke him Woke him even in France

# Until this morning

# And this snow

# If anything might rouse him

# Rouse him now

# The kind old sun

# Will know

# Lacrimosa

# Lacrimosa

# Dies illa

# Think, think

# How it wakes the seeds

# Walk once

# The clays of a cold, cold star

# Are limbs, limbs

# So dear achieved

# Are sides, full-nerved, still warm?

# Too hard to stir?

# Was it for this

# The clay grew tall

# Qua resurget

# Ex favilla

# Was it for this, for this

# The clay grew tall?

# Judicandus

# Homo reus

# O what, what made fatuous

# Fatuous sunbeams toil

# To break Earth's sleep

# At all?

# Pie Jesu

# Domine

# Dona eis

# Requiem

# Amen... #

# ..Domine

# Jesu, Jesu

# Jesu Christe

# Domine

# Rex gloriae

# Libera animas omnium fidelium

# Defunctorum de poenis inferni

# Et de profundo lacu

# Domine, Jesu, Jesu, Jesu Christe

# Jesu Christe

# Rex gloriae

# Libera animas omnium fidelium

# Defunctorum de poenis inferni

# Et de profundo lacu

# Domine Jesu

# Libera animas omnium fidelium

# Jesu Christe... #

# ..Sed signifer sanctus Michael

# Repraesentet eas in lucem sanctam

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti, et semini ejus

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus

# Quam olim Abrahae Quam olim Abrahae

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus

# Et semini ejus

# Et semini ejus

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus

# Quam olim Abrahae

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus... #

# So Abram rose and clave the wood, and went

# And took the fire with him and a knife.

# And as they sojourned both of them together,

# Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father

# My Father

# My Father

# Behold the preparations

# Fire and iron

# But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?

# Then Abram bound the youth

# With belts and straps

# And builded parapets

# And trenches there

# And streched forth the knife to slay his son

# When lo!

# An angel

# Called him out of heaven

# Saying

# Lay not thy hand upon the lad

# Neither do anything to him

# Behold, a ram

# Caught in a thicket by its horns

# Offer the Ram of Pride

# Instead of him

# But the old man would not so

# But slew his son

# And half the seed of Europe one by one... #

# Half the seed of Europe one by one

-# Half the seed of Europe

-Half the seed of Europe

-# One by one

-One by one

# Hostias et preced tibi Domine laudis offerimus tu suscipe pro

-# Half the seed of Europe

-Half the seed of Europe

# Animabus illis, quarum hodie memoriam facimus

# Fac eas

# One by one

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti en semini ejus

# One by one

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus.

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus

# Et semini ejus

-# Semini ejus

-Semini ejus

# Semini ejus

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus

# Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus... #

# Sanctus

# Sanctus

# Sanctus

# Dominus Deus Saboath

# Dominus Deus Saboath

# Saboath

ECHOES IN ROUNDS:

# Pleni sunt ceoli

# Et terra gloria tua... #

VOICES BECOME LOUDER, INSISTENT:

# ..Pleni sunt ceoli

# Et terra gloria tua... #

SILENCE

FANFARE PLAYS

# Hosanna in excelsis

# Hosanna in excelsis

# Hosanna in excelsis

# Hosanna in excelsis

# Hosanna in excelsis

# Hosanna in excelsis

# Hosanna in excelsis

# Hosanna in excelsis

VOICES ECHO, REFRAIN AND FADE

# Benedictus

# Benedictus

# Benedictus

# Qui venit in nomine

# Benedictus

# In nomine

# Domini

# In nomine

# Domini

# Benedictus

# Benedictus qui venit

# Benedictus

# Qui venit

# In nomine

# Domini

# Benedictus

# Qui venit

# Qui venit

# In nomine

# Qui venit

# In nomine

# In nomine

# In nomine

# Domini

# In nomine

# Domini

# Qui venit in nomine

# Qui venit in nomine

# Domini

# Domini

# Domini

MUSIC FADES THEN RETURNS TRIUMPHANTLY

# Hosanna in excelsis

VOICES ECHO

# Hosanna in excelsis!

MUSIC FADES

# After the blast of lightning

# From the East

# The flourish of loud clouds

# The Chariot Throne

# After the drums of time have rolled

# And ceased

# And by the bronze west

# Long retreat is blown

# Shall life renew these bodies?

# Of a truth

# All death will He annul?

# All tears assuage?

# Fill the void veins of life again

# With youth

# And wash

# With an immortal water

# Age?

# When I do ask white age

# He saith not so

# My head hangs weighed with snow

# And when I hearken to the Earth

# She saith

# My fiery heart shrinks

# Aching

# It is death

# Mine ancient scars

# Shall not be glorified

# Nor my titanic tears

# The sea

# Be dried... #

# ..One ever hangs

# Where shelled roads part

# In this war

# He too lost a limb

# But His disciples

# Hide apart

# And now the soldiers

-# Bear with Him

-Agnus Dei

# Qui tollis peccata mundi

# Dona eis requiem

# Near Golgotha strolls many a priest

# And in their faces there is pride

# That they were flesh-marked by the Beast

-# By whom the gentle Christ's denied

-Agnus Dei

# Qui tollis peccata mundi

# Dona eis requiem

# The scribes on all the people

# Shove and bawl allegiance

# To the state

# Agnus dei

# Qui tollis peccata mundi

# But they who love

# The greater love

# Lay down their life

# They do not hate

# Agnus dei

# Dona eis requiem

# Dona nobis

# Pacem. #

DISTANT DRUMS BEAT

# Libera me

# Domine

# Libera me

# De morte aeterna

# De morte aeterna

# De morte aeterna

# In die illa tremenda

# In die illa tremenda

# Quando coeli

# Movendi sunt et terra

# Dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem

# Dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem

# Dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem

# Quando coeli

# Movendi sunt et terra

# Quando coeli

# Movendi sunt et terra

TENORS AND SOPRANOS OVERLAP AND REPEAT TO CRESCENDO

# Libera me

# Libera me

# Domine

# De morte aeterna

# Dum veneris

# Judicare saeculum per ignem!

# Dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem

# Dum veneris judicare saeculum...

-# Dum veneris judicare saeculum

-# Dum veneris judicare saeculum

# Per ignem

# Per ignem

# Per ignem

# Per ignem

# Libera me

# Domine

# Domine

# Domine

# Tremens factus sum ego

# Ego et timeo

# Tremens! Tremens! Tremens!

# Factus sum ego

# Ego et timeo

# Tremens! Tremens!

# Factus sum ego

# Factus sum ego

# Sum ego! Sum ego!

# Sum ego

# Ego

VOICES OVERLAP TO CRESCENDO

# Dies illa

# Dies irae

# Dies illa

# Dies irae

# Calamitatis

# Et miseriae

# Dies magna

# Et amara

# Et amara valde

CRESCENDO

# Libera me

# Libera me, libera me

# Domine

# Libera me, domine

# Libera me, domine

# Domine, domine

# Domine

# Domine

# Libera me

# Domine

# Domine

# It seems that out of battle

# I escaped

# Down some profound, dull tunnel

# Long since scooped

# Through granites

# Which titanic wars had groined

# Yet also there

# Encumbered sleepers groaned

# Too fast in thought or death

# To be bestirred

# Then, as I probed them

# One sprang up and stirred

# With piteous recognition in fixed eyes

# Lifting distressful hands

# As if to bless

# And no guns thumped

# Or down the flues

# Made moan

# Strange friend, I said

# Here is no cause to mourn

# None

# Said the other

# Save the undone years

# The hopelessness

# Whatever hope is yours

# Was my life also

# I went hunting wild

# After the wildest beauty in the world

# For by my glee might many men have laughed

# And of my weeping

# Something had been left

# Which must die now

# I mean the truth untold

# The pity of war

# The pity war distilled

# Now men will go content with what we spoiled

# Or discontent, boil bloody and be spilled

# They will be swift with swiftness of the tigress

# None will break ranks

# Though nations trek from progress

# Miss we the march of this retreating world?

# Into vain citadels

# That are not walled

# Then when much blood

# Had clogged their chariot wheels

# I would go up

# And wash them

# From sweet wells

# Even from wells

# We sunk too deep for war

# Even the sweetest wells

# That ever were

# I am the enemy you killed, my friend

# I knew you in this dark

# For so you frowned Yesterday, through me

# As you jabbed and killed

# I parried

# But my hands were loath and cold

# Let us sleep now

# Let us sleep now

# Sleep now

# In paridisum deducant te Angeli

# Let us sleep

# Let us sleep

# In tuo adventu suscipiant te Martyres

# Let us sleep

# Let us sleep

# Sleep, sleep now

# Et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Jerusalem

# Let us sleep now

# Let us sleep now

# Let us sleep now

# Let us sleep

# Sleep

# Chorus Angelorum te suscipiat

# Let us sleep

-# Let us sleep

-THEY HARMONISE

# Et cum Lazaro quondam paupere

# Aeternam habeas requiem

# Let us sleep now

# Let us sleep

# Let us sleep

# Let us sleep

# Let us sleep

# In paridisum

# Deducant te Angeli.

# In tuo adventu suscipiant te Martyres

# Let us sleep

THEY HARMONISE

BELL TOLLS

# Requiem aeternam dona eis

# Domine

# Let us sleep

# Chorus Angeloru

# Te suscipiat

BELL TOLLS

BOYS SING IN LATIN

# Let us sleep

HE HARMONISES WITH SOPRANO

SOPRANO SINGS IN LATIN

BELL TOLLS

# Requiescant

# In pace

BELL TOLLS

# Amen

# Amen. #

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