The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak, ARCHIBALD MACLEISH/ANANDA SUKARLAN

Ananda Sukarlan (Music Composition/Keyboard/Piano/Simbal); Indra Listiyanto (Konduktor);Joseph Kristanto Pantioso (Bariton); ITB Choir; Paragita UI Choir; Jakarta String Ensemble

Minggu, 3 Januari 2010
Graha Bhakti Budaya - Taman Ismail Marzuki

The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak, ARCHIBALD MACLEISH

The young dead soldier do not speak
Nevertheless, they are heard in the still houses;
who has no heard them?
They have a silence that speaks for them at night
and when the clock counts.
They say: We were young. We have died.
Remember us.
They say: We have done what we could
but until it is finished it is not done.
They say: We have given our lives but until it is finished
no one can know what our lives gave.
They say: Our deaths are not ours; They are yours,
they will mean what you make them.
They say: Whether our lives and our deaths were for
peace and a new hope or for nothing we can not say,
it is you who must say this.
We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.
We are young, they say, We have died; remember us.

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