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"The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" is a poem by Wilfred Owen that compares the ascent of Abrahamto Mount Moriah and his near-sacrifice of Isaac there with the start of World War I. It had first been published by Siegfried Sassoon in 1920 with the title "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young", without the last line: "And half the seed of Europe, one by one".^[1] The poem is an allusion to a story in the Bible, Genesis 22:1-18.

According to the poem, the rulers of Europe believed that sacrificing their nations' (Ram of) Pride was too high a price, yet the irony is that the real cost of this Pride was millions of dead—the seed of Europe.


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The War Requiem, Op. 66, is a large-scale, non-liturgical setting of the Requiem composed by Benjamin Britten mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962.^[1] The War Requiem was performed for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, which was built after the original fourteenth-century structure was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid.

Offertorium (10 minutes)

• Domine Jesu Christe (boys' choir)

• Sed signifer sanctus (chorus)

• Quam olim Abrahae (chorus)

• Isaac and Abram (tenor and baritone soli) – Owen's "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young"

• Hostias et preces tibi (boys' choir)

• Reprise of Quam olim Abrahae (chorus)

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