Anthem for Doomed Youth the first line of the poem: "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?" The third album by British band The Libertines is named "Anthems For Doomed Youth", and features a song of the same name. American composer Stephen Whitehead included an orchestral setting of "Anthem for Doomed Youth" as a movement in his orchestral piece "Three Laments on the Great War" for soloists and orchestra. The piece is scored as a duet for mezzo-soprano and bass/baritone with orchestra. Anthem for Doomed Youth "Anthem for Doomed Youth" is a well-known poem written in 1917 by Wilfred Owen. It incorporates the
Mandalay (poem) Arranged and conducted by Billy May, Speaks's setting appears in Frank Sinatra's album "Come Fly with Me". Kipling's daughter and heiress objected to this version, which had altered Kipling's "Burma girl" into a "Burma broad", the "man", who east of Suez can raise a thirst, into a "cat" and the following "temple-bells" into "crazy bells". Sinatra sang the song in Australia, in 1959, and relayed the story of the Kipling family's objections to the song. Bertolt Brecht referred to Kipling′s poem in his "Mandalay Song", which was set to music by Kurt Weill for "Happy End" and "Rise and Fall