Movement 1: L’Homme Arme (anonymous, circa 1450)
L’homme armé doit on douter.
On a fait partout crier,
que chacun se viegne armer
d’un haubregon de fer.
L’homme armé doit on douter.
(The armed man should be feared.)
(Everywhere it has been proclaimed,)
(That each man shall arm himself)
(with a coat of iron mail.)
(The armed man should be feared.)
Movement 2: Call to Prayer (Muslim worship)
Allahu Akbar
Ashhadu an la ilaha illa Alla
Ashhadu Anna Muhammadan Rasulullah
Hayya ‘alas-Salah
Hayya ‘alal-Falah
Allahu Akbar
La ilaha illa Allah
(God is the greatest)
(I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship except God)
(I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of God)
(Hasten to Prayer)
(Hasten to salvation)
(God is the greatest)
(There is none worthy of worship except God)
Movement 3: Kyrie (Catholic Mass)
Kyrie eleison
Christe eleison
Kyrie eleison
(Lord have Mercy)
(Christ have Mercy)
(Lord have Mercy)
Movement 4: Save Me From Bloody Men (Psalms 56:1 and 59:2)
Be merciful unto me, O God:
For man would swallow me up.
He fighting daily oppresseth me.
Mine enemies would daily swallow me up.
For they be many that fight against men.
O thou Most High.
Defend me from them that
rise up against me.
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity,
And save me from bloody men.
Movement 5: Sanctus (Catholic Mass)
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus,
Dominus Deus Sabaoth
Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua
Hosanna in excelsis
(Holy, Holy, Holy,)
(Lord God of Hosts)
(Heaven and earth are full of your glory)
(Hosanna in the highest)
Movement 6: Hymn Before Action (Poem by Rudyard Kipling)
The earth is full of anger,
The seas are dark with wrath,
The Nations in their harness
Go up against our path:
Ere yet we loose the legions
Ere yet we draw the blade,
Jehovah of the Thunders,
Lord God of Battles, aid!
High lust and froward bearing,
Proud heart, rebellious brow
Deaf ear and soul uncaring,
We seek Thy mercy now!
The sinner that forswore Thee,
The fool that passed Thee by,
Our times are known before Thee
Lord, grant us strength to die!
Movement 7: Charge! (Poem by John Dryden and Jonathan Swift)
The trumpet’s loud clangor
excites us to arms,
With shrill notes of anger,
and mortal alarms.
How blest is he who for his country dies
The double, double beat
Of the thund’ring drum
Cries, Hark! the foes come;
Charge, charge, ’tis too late to retreat.
How blest is he who for his country dies
The double, double beat
Of the thund’ring drum
Cries, Hark! the foes come;
Charge, charge, ’tis too late to retreat.
Charge!
Movement 8: Angry Flames (Poem by Tōge Sankichi, witness to the bombing of Hiroshima)
Pushing up through smoke
From a world half darkened
by overhanging cloud.
The shroud that mushroomed out
And struck the dome of the sky,
Black, red, blue,
Dance in the air,
Merge, scatter glittering sparks already
tower over the whole city.
Quivering like seaweed
The mass of flames spurts forward.
Popping up in the dense smoke,
Crawling out wreathed in fire,
Countless human beings on all fours
In a heap of embers that erupt and subside,
Hair rent, rigid in death,
There smoulders a curse.
Movement 9: Torches (excerpt from The Mahābhārata, Sanskrit epic poem)
The animals scattered in all directions, screaming terrible screams.
Many were burning, others were burnt.
All were shattered and scattered mindlessly, their eyes bulging.
Some hugged their sons, others their fathers
and mothers, unable to let them go,
and so they died.
Others leapt up in their thousands, faces
disfigured and were consumed by the fire,
everywhere bodies squirming on the ground,
wings, eyes and paws all burning.
They breathed their last as living torches.
Movement 10: Agnus Dei (Catholic Mass)
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.
(Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.)
(Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, give us peace.)
Movement 11: Now the Guns Have Stopped (Guy Wilson)
Silent, so silent now,
Now the guns have stopped.
I have survived all,
I who knew I would not.
But now you are not here.
I shall go home, alone;
And must try to live life as before
And hide my grief.
For you, my dearest friend, who should be with me now,
Not cold, too soon,
And in your grave,
Alone.
Movement 12: Benedictus (Catholic Mass)
Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini.
Hosanna in excelsis.
(Blessed is the one who comes in name of the Lord.)
(Hosanna in the highest.)
Movement 13: Better is Peace (Poems by Thomas Mallory; Alfred Tennyson)
Better is peace than always war,
And better is peace than evermore war.
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true
(Revelations 21:4)
God shall wipe away all tears
And there shall be no more death,
Neither sorrow, nor crying,
Neither shall there be any more pain.
Praise the Lord.
