Simon Russell Beale, "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" from The Pity of War: Songs and Poems of Wartime Suffering (The Last Angry Man)
Commentary: A reading of the poem by Wilfred Owen (1893-1918).
"…When lo! an Angel called him out of heaven,
Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,
Neither do anything to him. Behold,
A ram caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.
But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one."
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