But Now My Heart - Macdonald - Edinburgh University Chamber Choir (Edinburgh)

This performance by Edinburgh University Chamber Choir was conducted by Michael Bawtree, in the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Lauriston Street.
The text, an excerpt from the 1943 poem 'Memory' by Siegfried Sassoon reads:
When I was young my heart and head were light,
And I was gay and feckless as a colt
Out in the fields, with morning in the may,
Wind on the grass, wings in the orchard bloom.
O thrilling sweet, my joy, when life was free
And all the paths led on from hawthorn-time
Across the carolling meadows into June.
But now my heart is heavy-laden. I sit
Burning my dreams away beside the fire:
For death has made me wise and bitter and strong;
And I am rich in all that I have lost.
O starshine on the fields of long-ago,
Bring me the darkness and the nightingale;
Dim wealds of vanished summer, peace of home,
And silence; and the faces of my friends.