Brengle Thomas Willis Burn (30 Mar 1943 - 16 Jun 2018)

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• Brengle Thoma Willis Burn, Was my eldest Brother. I loved him as only a brother may. Words will not express the loss, and yet I have tried with this short few verses For those who know not, Brengle was an excellent Euphonium player in his youth, and as a family we made an almost complete band of Cornet, Trombone, Baritone, Euphonium and Piano. David N.P.W.Burn (Nos 4 Son) Note to Euphonium – re Brengle Euphonium! The player’s gone, The quiet reassuring tone, The soft caress of lip to tune, God save the world and Love in June! I’ll miss the constant primo gent, my soul is torn, my heart is rent, I ne’re will see my childhood friend, my older part, my eldest kin! So ALL was he to one so young, his name was constant on my tongue, Through playful days and growing years, he led the charge, he quelled the fears, As onto places yet unknown, with confidence he strode alone. And led us four to foreign climes, and constantly his music rhymed. In Alfred Street, in Pristine Room, the gentle ululating tune, Would be a confirmation real, that all was well, no need to feel, That life was bad, or mad or sad, just walk with God be like our Dad, And hold your head high in the sun, be smart, courageous like our Mum! For many years the breath of tone, was absent from Euphon-i-um, For Brengle in his righteous mind, eschewed the band, denied the kind, Of Army whom he felt had harmed, the ones he loved, those most unarmed. Yet even so, beneath Bren’s breath, Euphon-i-um heard treble cleft. And so do I, most every day, a band does play, Hip hip Hooray! And in their mass, a single nome, has Brengle’s Euphon-i-um tone, He gently warms my aging heart, and joins our souls, so oft apart, Though many years we were not near, yet always in my heart I hear. So lonely once again is he, Euphonium’s forgot the key, That Brengle used, to Roam the Range, to Praise the Lord, and that’s quite strange, For up in Heaven now I hear?... a Baritone, Trombone and clear… ….Euphonium.. he sounds so near, they must have left notes in my ear! Vale Brengle. David N.P.W. Burn

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