Arms and the Boy Arms and the Boy "Arms and the Boy" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. Like Owen's other famous poems, it deals with the atrocities of World War I; in it, he portrays the loss of innocence of a child in the midst of war. Thousands like the boy are drawn into the battlefield, to the tormenting visitations of war. <poem>"Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood"</poem> It seems a wonder that a boy familiar with sticks and stones holds bayonets in the same hands and learns the coldness of death.
London Boy Singers Music for HMV, released in 1965. It also recorded an EP of songs with the London Jazz Quartet which featured on Juke Box Jury. Britten wrote "12 Apostles: Choral Octavo" and "The Bitter Withy" for the choir and his arrangement of "King Herod and the Cock" was dedicated to it. In 1966, Britten severed his relationship with the group. Jonathan Steele remained its director into the 1970s. The choir no longer exists. London Boy Singers The London Boy Singers was an English boys' choir which formed in 1961. It initially drew its members from the Finchley Children's Music Group. The