{"id":2623,"date":"2005-12-31T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-31T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2025-04-08T22:15:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T22:15:49","slug":"no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2623","title":{"rendered":"No more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>No more tears &#8211; Sylvia Armanious \u00a9 2004<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No more tears for me to cry.<br>No more days where I have to lie.<br>No more sadness to darken my day.<br>No more rain to fog my way*. <br>No more pain in my life. <br>No more fear of death by man&#8217;s** knife<br>No more tears for me to cry.<br>No more tears,<br>No more tears for me.<br><br><sub>Altered: *daydreams  **getting killed with life&#8217;s<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/purechocolate.org.uk\/music\/NoMore.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sub><sup>\u00a9 Stuart Moffatt 2005<\/sup><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpdl.org\/wiki\/index.php\/No_More_(Stuart_Moffatt)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ChoralWiki<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nwc-scriptorium.org\/db\/mofnomore.id\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Noteworthy Scriptorium<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sylvia Armanious was an Egyptian Coptic Christian whose family fled persecution to New Jersey. The poem above written in 2004 reveals Sylvia&#8217;s thoughts as she reflects upon the changes that this brought about in her life. In January 2005 she and her family (Monica, 9, herself, 15, Hossam, 47, and Amal, 37) were found having been stabbed to death in their new home. Dear reader, you may read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/2005\/03\/robbery-or-vendetta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> (Christianity Today), <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2005\/03\/05\/familys-fatal-vision-coptics-were-slain-because-girl-saw-thug-was-neighbor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> (New York Post) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/01\/15\/nyregion\/parents-and-2-daughters-found-slain-at-home-in-jersey-city.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> (New York Times). Whilst the motive for their murder may have been misunderstood the report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coptic-church.org\/funeral.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Coptic Church<\/a>, speaks well of the family and of Sylvia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The copyright of the music is held by&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:hymns@purechocolate.org.uk\">Stuart Moffatt (\u00a9 2004)<\/a>.<br>The midi file was produced using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/noteworthycomposer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Noteworthy Composer<\/a>.<br>The mp3\/ogg were produced using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myriad-online.com\/\">Myriad<\/a>&nbsp;software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No more tears &#8211; Sylvia Armanious \u00a9 2004 No more tears for me to cry.No more days where I have to lie.No more sadness to darken my day.No more rain to fog my way*. No more pain in my life. No more fear of death by man&#8217;s** knifeNo more tears for me to cry.No more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2868,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}