Name: In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'
Duration: P00H02M49S
Description: Written by Thomas Hardy in 1915. The title references Jeremiah 51:20: ‘Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms.’

In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'

from Neutral Tones : Song Settings of the Poetry of Thomas Hardy by Gordon Thompson

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Written by Thomas Hardy in 1915. The title references Jeremiah 51:20: ‘Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms.’

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Only a man harrowing clods
In a slow and silent walk,
With an old horse that stumbles and nods,
Half asleep as they stalk.

Only thin smoke without flame,
From the heaps of couch grass.
This will go onward the same,
Though dynasties pass.

Yonder a maid and her wight
Come whispering by.
Wars annals will cloud into night,
Ere their story die.

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from Neutral Tones : Song Settings of the Poetry of Thomas Hardy, released February 9, 2020
Black Diamond Cigar Box guitar recorded on an iPhone 5, piano, vocals - Gordon Thompson

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Gordon Thompson Melbourne, Australia

Gordon lives in Melbourne and is the publisher at Clouds of Magellan Press, and publisher of 'Bent Street: Australian LGBTIQA+ Arts, Writing & Ideas'. He has four children (at last count) with Petrina, also one dog (Shep) and 6 goldfish (Papa Jo and the Sylvesters) ... more

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