Lawrence Hall, HSG
The Great Gate of Kiev
Mussorgsky’s The Great Gate of Kiev
is no hymn to the people of Ukraine (telegraph.co.uk)
If there was never a Great
Gate of Kiev
Except in Mussorgy’s triumphal
hymn
There ought to have been,
and there will be some day
Trophied with captured
Putinista flags
For now
Wherever a Ukrainian
enters Kiev
By rail or bus, or in
worn-out army boots
He is the Gate, the Knight’s
Gate, the Golden gate
With a chapel and the most
wonderful bells
And the pictures at an
exhibition
Will be ikons of Ukrainian
martyrs
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