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Futility (Wilfred Owen)

from Poetry and Music 6 by Toby Darling

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Futility
By Wilfred Owen


D7 D6
Move him into the sun—
Am7 Gm9
Gently its touch awoke him once,
Am7 Ddim D* Am7
At home, whispering of fields half-sown.
D7 D6
Always it woke him, even in France,
Am7 Gm9
Until this morning and this snow.
Am7
If anything might rouse him now
Ddim D* Am7 Gm7
The kind old sun will know.

Fmaj7 Dm7
Think how it wakes the seeds—
Gm7 Fm7
Woke once the clays of a cold star.
Bb Am7 D
Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides
D7 D6
Full-nerved, still warm, too hard to stir?
Am7 Gm9
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
Am7 Ddim D*
—O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
Am7
To break earth's sleep at all?

D7: xx0768
D6: xx0767
Am7: 575555
G9: 353335
Ddim: xx0 10 98
D*: xx0 10 97
Fmaj7: xx3210
Dm7: xx0 10 10 8
Fm7: 131111
Bb: x13331
Am7 x02010
D: xx0232

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from Poetry and Music 6, released December 10, 2016

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