Tiggy

The recent post by Daniel made me wonder if any filkers have put Wilfred Owen's war poetry to music?

My favourite is Strange Meeting, but this one is better known

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est

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Dulce et Decorum Est

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And…

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@tiggy
Hmm, Britten as filker...
His setting of Strange Meeting is powerful, and the ending (which ends the War Requiem) is beautiful.

duck://player/uw3uax3-6so