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Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,<br />
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,<br />
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.<br />
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.<br />
The poem, sung by the tenor, is in the first part - the ''Requiem aeternam'' - of [[Benjamin Britten]]'s ''War Requiem'' written for, and performed at, the reconsecration of Coventry Cathedral in England in 1963 following its rebuilding after German air raids during [[World War II]].
[[Category:Poems]]
[[Category:Poems]]