O Valiant Hearts

New music by Graham Hickey

poem by Sir John Stanhope Arkwright (18721954)
O valiant hearts who to your glory came
Through dust of conflict and through battle flame;
Tranquil you lie, your knightly virtue proved,
Your memory hallowed in the land you loved.
Proudly you gathered, rank on rank, to war
As who had heard Gods message from afar;
All you had hoped for, all you had, you gave,
To save mankindyourselves you scorned to save.
Splendid you passed, the great surrender made;
Into the light that nevermore shall fade;
Deep your contentment in that blest abode,
Who wait the last clear trumpet call of God.
Long years ago, as earth lay dark and still,
Rose a loud cry upon a lonely hill,
While in the frailty of our human way,
Christ, our Redeemer, passed the self same way.
Still stands His Cross from that dread hour to this,
Like some bright star above the dark abyss;
Still, through the veil, the Victors pitying eyes
Look down to bless our lesser Calvaries.
These were His servants, in His steps they trod,
Following through death the martyred Son of God:
Victor, He rose; victorious too shall rise
They who have drunk His cup of sacrifice.
O risen Lord, O Shepherd of our dead,
Whose cross has bought them and Whose staff has led,
In glorious hope their proud and sorrowing land
Commits her children to Thy gracious hand.

Oh Valiant Hearts

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Oh
val - iant hearts who
Proud - ly you ga - thered,
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Oh
val - iant hearts whothrough your glo - ry
Proud - ly you ga - thered,rank
on rank, to
Splen - did you passed, the great sur - ren - der
Long
years a - go, as earth lay dark and
O
ri - sen Lord O Shep - herd of our
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came,
war
made;
still,
dead,

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through dust of con - ict

As
who had heard Gods
In - to the light that
Rose
a loud cry
up Whose cross has bought them
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and through bat - tle ame

mes - sage from a - far;
ne - ver - more shall fade;
on
a
lone - ly
hill,
and Whose sta has
led,

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Tran - quil you lie, your

All you had hoped for,
Deep your con - tent ment
While in the frail - ty
In glor-ious hope their

knight - ly
vir - tue proved
all you had, you gave,
in that blest a - bode,
of our hu - man way,
proud and sorrow-ing land
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your mem - ry hal-lowed

To save man-kind your
Who wait the last clear
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in
the land you loved
selves you scorned to save.
trum - pet call of God.
passed the self same way.
to
thy gra - sioushand.
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Oh val-iant hearts who through your glo -ry

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