Gethsemane

[poliphilo]

I've been looking for this for years. It's Peter Bellamy's setting of Kipling's Great War poem "Gethsemane". Bellamy included it on the album "Mr Kipling Wrote Exceedingly Good Songs" which- at the time of writing- is unobtainable in any form. Here it's sung by Andrew King in a version taken from his Album The Amfortas Wound.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a great poem.

Kipling was haunted by the war. So many of his later stories are about psychological healing and forgiveness and the futility of carrying forward a hatred.