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Soldier, I wish you well

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2009

CHRIS BROWN
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Review of International Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , October 2009 , pp. 880 - 882
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1 Irritatingly, Butterworth did not actually set ‘The street sounds to the soldiers tread’, but Arthur Sommervell did. Although written in a less ironic age, Butterworth's setting of ‘The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair’, with its final couplet

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,
The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

can still be surprisingly evocative when sung with the right emotional force, as Simon Keenlyside proved at the Wigmore Hall on 9 January 2008, explicitly referring to our current wars.

2 Light Work Press Release {http://www.lightwork.org/exhibitions/past/opton.html} DavidMixner.com {http://www.lightwork.org/exhibitions/past/opton.html}.

3 {http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7403169}.