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Cathay-Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound · Edgar Allan Poe Poems

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Speaker 1: Er Song of the Bowmen of Shoe from Cathay by
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Speaker 1: Ezra Pound Readfullybrivox dot Org by Alan Drake. Here we
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Speaker 1: are picking the first fern shoots and saying, when shall
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Speaker 1: we get back to our country? We are here because
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Speaker 1: we have the kennon for our foemen. We have no
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Speaker 1: comfort because of these mongols. We grub the soft fernshoots.
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Speaker 1: When anyone says return, the others are full of sorrow,
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Speaker 1: sorrowful minds. Sorrow is strong. We are hungry and thirsty.
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Speaker 1: Our defense is not yet made sure. No one can
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Speaker 1: let his friend return. We grub the old ferns dogs.
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Speaker 1: We say, will we be let to go back? In October?
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Speaker 1: There is no ease in royal affairs. We have no comfort.
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Speaker 1: Our sorrow is bitter, but we would not return to
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Speaker 1: our company. What flower has come into blossom? Whose chariot?
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Speaker 1: The generals horses? His horses even are tired. They were strong.
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Speaker 1: We have no rest. Three battles a month, by heaven.
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Speaker 1: His horses are tired. The generals are on them, the
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Speaker 1: soldiers are by them. The horses are well trained. The
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Speaker 1: generals have ivory arrows and quivers ornamented with fish skin.
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Speaker 1: The enemy is swift. We must be careful. When we
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Speaker 1: set out, the willows were drooping with spring. We come
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Speaker 1: back in the snow. We go slowly. We are hung
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Speaker 1: and thirsty. Our mind is full of sorrow. Who will
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Speaker 1: know our grief? End of poem by Buno, reputedly eleven
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Speaker 1: hundred BC. This recording is in the public domain. The
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Speaker 1: Beautiful Toilet by Ezra Pound read for LibriVox dot org
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Speaker 1: by Alan Drake. Blue blue is the grass above the river,
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Speaker 1: and the willows have overfilled the close garden, and within
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Speaker 1: the mistress, in the midmost of her youth, white, white
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Speaker 1: of face, hesitates passing the door. Slender she puts forth
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Speaker 1: a slender hand. And she was a courtesan in the
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Speaker 1: old days. And she has married Asat, who now goes
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Speaker 1: drunkenly out and leaves her too much alone. And of
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Speaker 1: poem by Mei Sheng b c. One forty. This recording
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Speaker 1: is in the public domain. The River Song by Ezra
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Speaker 1: Pound read for Librevox, dot org by Alan Drake. This
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Speaker 1: boat is of chateau wood, and its gunwales are cut magnolia.
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Speaker 1: Musicians with jeweled flutes and with pipes of gold fill full.
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Speaker 1: The sides in rows, and are wine is rich for
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Speaker 1: a thousand cups. We carry singing girls drift with the
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Speaker 1: drifting water. Yet Senen needs a yellow stalk for a charger,
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Speaker 1: and all our seamen would follow the white gulls or
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Speaker 1: ride them. Kutsu's prose song hangs with the sun and moon.
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Speaker 1: King So's terraced palace is now but barren hill. But
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Speaker 1: I draw a pen on this barge, causing the five
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Speaker 1: peaks to tremble. And I have joy in these words,
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Speaker 1: like the joy of blue islands. If glory could last forever,
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Speaker 1: then the waters of Han would flow northward. And I
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Speaker 1: have moped in the Emperor's garden awaiting an order to write.
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Speaker 1: I looked at the dragon pond, with its willow colored
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Speaker 1: water just reflecting the sky's tinge, and heard the five
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Speaker 1: scored nightingales aimlessly singing. The eastern wind brings the green
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Speaker 1: color into our island grasses. At Yeeshu, the purple house
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Speaker 1: and the crimson are full of spring softness. South of
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Speaker 1: the pond, the willow tips are half blue and bluer.
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Speaker 1: Their cords tangle in mist against the brocade, like pallace.
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Speaker 1: Fine strings a hundred feet long hang down from the
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Speaker 1: carved railings, and high over the willows. The fine birds
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Speaker 1: sing to each other and listen, crying kuan cou' for
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Speaker 1: the early wind and the feel of it. The wind
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Speaker 1: bundles itself into a bluish cloud and wanders off over
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Speaker 1: a thousand gates, over a thousand doors are the sounds
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Speaker 1: of spring singing, and the Emperor is at Coo. Five
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Speaker 1: clouds hang aloft bright on the purple sky. The Imperial
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Speaker 1: guards come forth from the Golden House with their armor
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Speaker 1: a gleaming. The Emperor, in his jeweled car, goes out
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Speaker 1: to inspect his flowers. He goes out to Hori to
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Speaker 1: look at the wing flapping storks. He returns by way
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Speaker 1: of Sei Rak to hear the new nightingales. For the
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Speaker 1: gardens of Joe run or full of new nightingales. Their
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Speaker 1: sound is mixed in this flute. Their voice is in
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Speaker 1: the twelve pipes here by Rihaku eighth century, a d
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Speaker 1: and of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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Speaker 1: The River Merchant's Wife a letter by Ezra Pound read
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Speaker 1: for Librevox dot Org by Alan Drake. While my hair
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Speaker 1: was still cut straight across my forehead, I played about
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Speaker 1: the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts,
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Speaker 1: playing horse. You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.
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Speaker 1: And we went on living in the village of Chokan,
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Speaker 1: two small people, without dislike or suspicion. At fourteen I
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Speaker 1: married my lord you. I never laughed, being bashful, lowering
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Speaker 1: my head, I looked at the wall, called to a
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Speaker 1: thousand times, I never looked back. At fifteen I stopped scowling.
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Speaker 1: I desired my dust to be mingled with yours, forever
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Speaker 1: and forever and forever. Why should I climb the look out?
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Speaker 1: At sixteen you departed. You went into far Kutoyen by
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Speaker 1: the river of swirling eddies, and you have been gone
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Speaker 1: five months. The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead. You drag
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Speaker 1: your feet when you went out by the gate. Now
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Speaker 1: the moss is grown, the different mosses too deep to
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Speaker 1: clear them away. The leaves fall early this autumn in wind.
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Speaker 1: The peared butterflies are already yellow with august over the
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Speaker 1: grass in the west garden. They hurt me. I grow older.
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Speaker 1: If you are coming down through the narrows of the
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Speaker 1: river Kiang, please let me know beforehand, I will come
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Speaker 1: out to meet you as far as Chofu sa by
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Speaker 1: Rihaku end of poem. This recording is in the pub
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Speaker 1: domin poem by the Bridge at ten Shin by Ezra Pound,
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Speaker 1: recorded for Librevox dot Org by Alan Drake. March has
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Speaker 1: come to the bridgehead. Peach boughs and apricot boughs hang
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Speaker 1: over a thousand gates. At morning there are flowers to
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Speaker 1: cut the heart, and evening drives them on the eastward
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Speaker 1: flowing waters. Petals are on the gone waters, and on
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Speaker 1: the going and on the back swirling eddies. But today's
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Speaker 1: men are not the men of the old days. Though
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Speaker 1: they hang in the same way over the bridge rail.
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Speaker 1: The sea's color moves at the dawn, and the princes
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Speaker 1: still stand in rows about the throne, and the moon
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Speaker 1: still falls over the portals of Saigo Yo and clings
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Speaker 1: to the walls and the gate top. With head gear
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Speaker 1: glittering against the cloud and sun. The lords go forth
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Speaker 1: from the court and into far borders. They ride upon
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Speaker 1: dragon like horses, upon horses with head trappings of yellow metal,
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Speaker 1: and the streets make way for their passage, haughty their passing,
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Speaker 1: haughty their steps as they go into great banquets, to
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Speaker 1: high halls and curious food, to the perfumed air, and
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Speaker 1: girls dancing to clear flutes and clear singing, to the
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Speaker 1: dance of seventy couples, to the mad chase through the gardens.
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Speaker 1: Night and day are given over to pleasure, and they
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Speaker 1: think it will last a thousand autumns, unwearying autumns for them.
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Speaker 1: The yellow dog's howl portents in vain, And what are
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Speaker 1: they compared to the lady Rio Kushu that was of hate?
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Speaker 1: Who among them is a man like Hanrei, who departed
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Speaker 1: alone with his mistress with her hair unbound, and he
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Speaker 1: his own skiff's man and live poem by Rihaku. This
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Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. The Jewel Stares grievance
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Speaker 1: by Ezra Pound, recorded for LibriVox dot Org by Allan Drake.
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Speaker 1: The Jewel'd steps are already quite white with dew. It
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Speaker 1: is so late that the dew soaks my gauzet, and
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Speaker 1: I let down the crystal curtain and watch the moon
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Speaker 1: through the clear autumn and the poem by Rihaku note
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Speaker 1: Jewel Stares therefore a palace grievance. Therefore there is something
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Speaker 1: to complain of cauze stockings. Therefore a court lady, not
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Speaker 1: a servant who complains clear autumn. Therefore he has no
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Speaker 1: excuse on account of weather. Also, she has come early,
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Speaker 1: for the dew has not only whitened the stairs, but
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Speaker 1: has soaked her stockings. The poem is especially prized because
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Speaker 1: she utters no direct reproach. This recording is in the
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Speaker 1: public domain. Lament of the Frontier Guard by Ezra Pound,
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Speaker 1: recorded for LibriVox dot Org by Alan Drake. By the
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Speaker 1: North Gate, the wind blows full of sand, lonely from
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Speaker 1: the beginning of time until now trees fall. The grass
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Speaker 1: goes yellow with autumn. I climb the towers and towers
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Speaker 1: to watch out the barbarous land, desolate castle, the sky,
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Speaker 1: the wide desert. But there is no wall left to
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Speaker 1: this village. Bones white, with a thousand frosts, high heaps
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Speaker 1: covered with trees and grass. Who brought this to pass?
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Speaker 1: Who has brought the flaming imperial anger? Who has brought
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Speaker 1: the army with drums and with kettle drums, barbarous kings?
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Speaker 1: A gracious spring turned to blood ravenous autumn. A turmoil
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Speaker 1: of warmends spread over the Middle Kingdom three hundred and
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Speaker 1: sixty thousand, and sorrow sorrow like rain, sorrow to go,
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Speaker 1: and sorrow sorrow returning desolate desolate fields, and no children
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Speaker 1: of warfare upon them, no longer than men for offense
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Speaker 1: and defense. Ah, how shall you know the dreary sorrow
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Speaker 1: at the north gate, with Rihuku's name forgotten, and we
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Speaker 1: guardsmen fed to the tigers. End of poem by Rihuku.
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Speaker 1: This recording is in the public domain. Exile's letter by
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Speaker 1: Ezra Pound read for Librevox dot org by Alan Davis Drake,
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Speaker 1: July seventeenth, two thousand and six in Long Branch, New Jersey,
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Speaker 1: painted rice cakes dot org from the Chinese of Lee
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Speaker 1: po usually considered the greatest poet of China, written by
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Speaker 1: him while in exile about seven sixty a d. To
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Speaker 1: the Hereditary War Councilor of shoh recollecting former companionship so
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Speaker 1: Kin of Roku Ho, ancient friend, I now remember that
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Speaker 1: you built me a special tavern by the south side
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Speaker 1: of the bridge at ten Hin with yellow gold and
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Speaker 1: white jewels. We paid for the songs and laughter, and
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Speaker 1: we were drunk for month after month forgetting the kings
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Speaker 1: and prinszes. Intelligent men came drifting in from the sea
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Speaker 1: and from the west border. And with them, and with
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Speaker 1: you especially, there was nothing at cross purpose, and they
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Speaker 1: made nothing of sea crossing or mountain crossing. If only
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Speaker 1: they could be of that fellowship. And we all spoke
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Speaker 1: out our hearts and minds and without regret. And then
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Speaker 1: I was sent off to Southway, smothered in Laurel groves,
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Speaker 1: and you to the north of Roku Hoku, till we
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Speaker 1: had nothing but thoughts and memories between us. And when
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Speaker 1: separation had come to its worst, we met and traveled
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Speaker 1: together into Sengo, through all the thirty six folds of
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Speaker 1: the turning and twisting waters, into a valley of a
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Speaker 1: thousand bright flowers that was the first valley, and on
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Speaker 1: into ten thousand valleys full of voices and pine with
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Speaker 1: silver harness and rains of gold prostrating themselves on the ground.
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Speaker 1: Out came the east of Khan Foreman and his company.
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Speaker 1: And there came also the true Man of shi Yo
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Speaker 1: to meet me. Playing on a jeweled mouth organ in
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Speaker 1: the storied houses of san Ko. They gave us more
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Speaker 1: Sennen music, many instruments like the sound of young phoenix
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Speaker 1: broods and the foremen of kang Chu. Drunk danced because
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Speaker 1: his long sleeves wouldn't keep still with the music playing.
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Speaker 1: And I, wrapped in brocade, went to sleep with my
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Speaker 1: head on his lap and my spirits so high that
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Speaker 1: it was all over the heavens, and before the end
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Speaker 1: of the day we were scattered like stars or rain.
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Speaker 1: I had to be off to sow far away over
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Speaker 1: the waters. You back to your river bridge, and your father,
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Speaker 1: who was brave as a leopard, was governor of Hayeshu
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Speaker 1: and put down the barbarian rabble, and one may he
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Speaker 1: had you send for me. Despite the long distance, and
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Speaker 1: what with broken wheels and so on, I wouldn't say
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Speaker 1: it wasn't hard going over roads twisted like sheep's guts.
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Speaker 1: And I was still going late in the year, in
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Speaker 1: the cutting wind from the north, and thinking how little
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Speaker 1: you cared for the cost, and you caring enough to
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Speaker 1: pay it. Then what a reception, red jade cups, foods
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Speaker 1: well set on a blue jeweled table. And I was
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Speaker 1: drunk and had no thought of returning. And you would
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Speaker 1: walk out with me to the western corner of the castle,
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Speaker 1: to the dynastic temple, with a water about it, clear
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Speaker 1: as blue jade, with boats floating and the sound of
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Speaker 1: mouth organs and drums, with like dragon scales going, grass
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Speaker 1: green on the water, pleasure lasting, with courtesans going and
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Speaker 1: coming without hindrance, with the willow flakes falling like snow,
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Speaker 1: and the vermilioned girls getting drunk about sunset, and the
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Speaker 1: waters a hundred feet deep reflecting green eyebrows. Eyebrows painted
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Speaker 1: green are a fine sight in young moonlight, gracefully painted,
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Speaker 1: and the girls singing back at each other, dancing in
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Speaker 1: transparent brocade, and the wind lifting the song and interrupting it,
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Speaker 1: tossing it up under the clouds, and all this comes
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Speaker 1: to an end, and it is not again to be
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Speaker 1: met with. I went up to the court for examination,
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Speaker 1: tried Layu's luck, offered the Choyu song, and got no promotion,
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Speaker 1: and went back to the East Mountain whiteheaded, And once
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Speaker 1: again we met later at the south Bridge head, and
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Speaker 1: then the crowd broke up. You went north to San Palace.
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Speaker 1: And if you ask how I regretted the parting, it
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Speaker 1: is like the flowers falling on spring's edge, confused, whirled
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Speaker 1: in a tangle. What's the use of talking, and there
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Speaker 1: is no end of talking. There is no end of
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Speaker 1: things in the heart. I call in the boy, have
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Speaker 1: him sit on my knees to write and seal this,
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Speaker 1: and I send it a thousand miles thinking. Translated by
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Speaker 1: Ezra Pound from the notes of the late Phenorosa and
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Speaker 1: the decipherings of the professors Maury and Raga. End of poem.
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Speaker 1: This recording is in the public domain. Homes of Departure
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Speaker 1: by Ezra Pound, read for Librevox dot Org by Alan Drake.
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Speaker 1: Light rain is on the light dust. The willows of
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Speaker 1: the inn yard will be going greener and greener. But you, sir,
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Speaker 1: had better take wine ere your departure, for you will
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Speaker 1: have no friends about you when you come to the
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Speaker 1: gates of Go by Rihaku or Omakitsu. Separation on the
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Speaker 1: river Kiang. Kojin goes west from ko Kaku row. The
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Speaker 1: smoke flowers are blurred over the river. His lone sail
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Speaker 1: blots the far sky, and now I see only the river,
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Speaker 1: the long Kiang reaching heaven by Rihaku, taking leave of
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Speaker 1: a friend, Blue mountains to the north of the walls,
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Speaker 1: white river winding about them. Here we must make separation
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Speaker 1: and go out through a thousand miles of dead grass mine,
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Speaker 1: like a floating white cloud sunset, like the parting of
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Speaker 1: old acquaintances who bow over their clasped hands at a distance.
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Speaker 1: Our horses neigh to each other as we are departing
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Speaker 1: by Rihaku, taking leave near Shoku. Sanso, King of Shoku
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Speaker 1: built roads. They say, the roads of Sanso or steep
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Speaker 1: sheer as the mountains. The walls rise in a man's face.
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Speaker 1: Clouds grow out of the hill at its horse's bridle.
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Speaker 1: Sweet trees are on the paved way of the Shin.
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Speaker 1: Their trunks burst through the paving, and freshets are bursting
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Speaker 1: their ice. In the midst of Shoku, a proud city.
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Speaker 1: Men's fates are already set. There is no need of
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Speaker 1: asking diviners. End of poem by Rihaku. This recording is
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Speaker 1: in the public domain. The City of Cho'an by Ezra
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Speaker 1: Pound read for Librevox dot Org by Alan Drake. The
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Speaker 1: fen are at play on their terrace. The phoenix are gone,
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Speaker 1: The river flows on alone. Flowers and grass cover over
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Speaker 1: the dark path where lay the dynastic house of the go.
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Speaker 1: The bright cloth and bright caps of Shin are Now
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Speaker 1: the base of old hills, the three mountains fall through
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Speaker 1: the far heaven. The isle of White Heron splits, the
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Speaker 1: two streams apart. Now the high clouds cover the sun,
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Speaker 1: and I cannot see choan afar, and I am sad.
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Speaker 1: End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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Speaker 1: Southfolk in Cold Country by Ezra pound Red for LibriVox
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Speaker 1: dot Org by Allan Drake. The dye horse neighs against
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Speaker 1: the bleak wind of Etsu. The birds of Etsu have
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Speaker 1: no love for n in the north. Emotion is borne
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Speaker 1: out of habit. Yesterday we went out of the wild
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Speaker 1: goosegate to day from the dragon pen. Surprised, desert, turmoil, sea, sun, flying,
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Speaker 1: snow bewilders the barbarian heaven. Lice swarms like ants over
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Speaker 1: our accouterments. Mind and spirit drive on the feathery banners.
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Speaker 1: Hard fight gets no reward. Loyalty is hard to explain.
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Speaker 1: Who will be sorry for General Rishogu, the swift moving
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Speaker 1: whose white head is lost for this province and of poem.
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Speaker 1: This recording is in the public domain. Sennin poem by
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Speaker 1: Cacuhaku from Cathay by Ezra pound Read for LibriVox dot Org.
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Speaker 1: By Allan Davis, Drake of Long Branch, New Jersey. The
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Speaker 1: red and green kingfishers flash between the orchards and clover.
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Speaker 1: One bird casts its gleam on another. Green vines hang
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Speaker 1: through the high forest. They weave a whole roof to
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Speaker 1: the mountain. The lone man sits with shut speech. He
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Speaker 1: purrs and pats the clear strings. He throws his heart
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Speaker 1: up through the sky. He bites through the flower pistol
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Speaker 1: and brings up a fine fountain. The red pine tree
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Speaker 1: god looks at him and wonders. He rides through the
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Speaker 1: purple smoke to visit the Senin. He takes floating hill
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Speaker 1: by the sleeve. He clasps his hand on the back
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Speaker 1: of the great water Senin. But you, you damned crowd
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Speaker 1: of gnats, can you even tell the age of a turtle?
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Speaker 1: End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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Speaker 1: A Ballad of the Mulberry Road from Cathay by Ezra
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Speaker 1: Pound Redflibrevox dot Org. By Allan Davis Drake. The sun
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Speaker 1: rises in the southeast corner of things. To look on
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Speaker 1: the tall house of the Shin. For they have a
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Speaker 1: daughter named Rafu, pretty girl. She made the name for
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Speaker 1: herself gauze Vale. For she feeds mulberries to silkworms. She
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Speaker 1: gets them by the south wall of the town with
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Speaker 1: green strings. She makes the warp of her basket. She
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Speaker 1: makes the shoulder straps of her basket from the boughs
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Speaker 1: of the katsura, and she piles her hair up on
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Speaker 1: the left side of her hair piece. Her earrings are
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Speaker 1: made of pearl. Her underskirt is of green patterned silk.
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Speaker 1: Her overskirt is the same silk dyed in purple. And
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Speaker 1: when men going by look at Rafu, they set down
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Speaker 1: their burdens, they stand and twirl their mustaches. From a
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Speaker 1: very early manuscript of fennol Losa end of poem. This
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Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. Old idea of Chouan
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Speaker 1: by Rossouriu from Cathay by Ezra Pound, read for Librevox
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Speaker 1: dot Org by Alan Davis Drake. One the narrow streets
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Speaker 1: cut into the wide highway at Chouan, dark oxen white
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Speaker 1: horses drag on the seven coaches with out riders. The
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Speaker 1: coach wuies are perfumed wood. The jeweled chair is held
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Speaker 1: up at the crossway before the royal Lodge. A glitter
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Speaker 1: of golden saddles awaiting the princes. They eddy before the
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Speaker 1: gate of the barrens. The canopy, embroidered with dragons, drinks
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Speaker 1: in and casts back the sun evening comes. The trappings
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Speaker 1: are boarded with mist. The hundred cords of mist are
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Speaker 1: spread through and double the trees. Night birds and night
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Speaker 1: women spread out their sounds through the gardens. Two birds
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Speaker 1: with flowery wing, Hovering butterflies crowd over the thousand gates,
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Speaker 1: trees that glitter like jade, terraces tinged with silver. The
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Speaker 1: seed of a myriad hues. A network of arbors and
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Speaker 1: passages and covered ways. Double towers, winged roofs border the
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Speaker 1: network of ways. A place of felicitous meeting. Ru's house
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Speaker 1: stands out on the sky with glitter of color, as
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Speaker 1: BOUTEI of Khan had made the high golden lotus to
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Speaker 1: gather his dues before it. Another house which I do
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Speaker 1: not know. How shall we know all the friends whom
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Speaker 1: we meet on strange roadways? And of poem? This recording
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Speaker 1: is in the public domain. To end May's the unmoving
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Speaker 1: cloud wet spring time says to m May, wet spring
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Speaker 1: in the garden from Cathay by Ezra Pound Red for
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Speaker 1: Librevox dot Org by Allen Davis Drake. One. The clouds
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Speaker 1: have gathered and gathered, and the rain falls and falls.
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Speaker 1: The eight ply of the heavens are all folded into
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Speaker 1: one darkness, and the wide flat road stretches out. I
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Speaker 1: stop in my room towards the east, quiet, quiet, I
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Speaker 1: pat my new cask of wine. My friends are estranged
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Speaker 1: 'er far distant. I bow my head and stand still. Two. Rain, rain,
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Speaker 1: and the clouds have gathered. The eight ply of the
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Speaker 1: heavens are darkness. The flat land is turned into river wine. Wine.
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Speaker 1: Here is wine. I drink by my eastern window. I
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Speaker 1: think of talking and man, and no boat, no carriage approaches. Three.
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Speaker 1: The trees in my east looking garden are bursting out
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Speaker 1: with new twigs. They try to stir new affections, and
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Speaker 1: men say the sun and moon keep on moving because
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Speaker 1: they can't find a soft seat. The birds flutter to
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Speaker 1: rest in my tree, and I think I have heard
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Speaker 1: them saying, it is not that there are no other men.
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Speaker 1: But we like this fellow the best. But however we
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Speaker 1: long to speak, he cannot know our sorrow. Tao Yuan
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Speaker 1: ming a d. Three sixty five to four twenty seven
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Speaker 1: end of poem end of Cathay by Ezra Pound. This
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Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. The Seafarer from the
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Speaker 1: Anglo Saxon by Ezra Pound, recorded for LibriVox dot Org
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Speaker 1: by Alan Drake. May I from my own self song's truth,
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Speaker 1: reckon journey's jargon. How I, in harsh days, hardship endur'd
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Speaker 1: oft bitter breast cares, have I abided known on my
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Speaker 1: keel many a care's hold and dire sea surge, And
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Speaker 1: there I oft spent narrow night watch nigh the ship's head,
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Speaker 1: while she toss'd close to cliffs, coldly afflicted. My feet
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Speaker 1: were by frost, benumb'd chill, Its chains are chafting sighs
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Speaker 1: hew My heart round and hunger begot mere, weary mood
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Speaker 1: lest man know not that he on dry land, loveliest
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Speaker 1: liveth list. How I care wretched on ice cold sea
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Speaker 1: weather'd the winter watch'd outcasts, depriv'd of my kinship, hung
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Speaker 1: with hard ice flakes, where hailscot flew. There I heard
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Speaker 1: nought save the harsh sea and the ice cold wave,
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Speaker 1: at whiles the swan cries did from my games the
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Speaker 1: Gannet's clamor sea fowl's loudness was for me laughter, the
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Speaker 1: meuse singing all my MEA drink storms on the stone cliffs,
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Speaker 1: beaten fell on the stern, and icy feathers full off.
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Speaker 1: The eagle scream'd with a spray on his pinion. Not
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Speaker 1: any protector may make merry man faring needy. This he
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Speaker 1: little believes, who eye in winsome life abides mid burghers,
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Speaker 1: some heavy business, wealthy and wine flush'd. How I weary
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Speaker 1: oft must abide above brine nearest nightshade snoweth from north,
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Speaker 1: frost froze the land, hail fell on earth. Then corn
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Speaker 1: of the coldest, nast lest there knocketh Now the heart's
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Speaker 1: thought that I on high stream, the salt, wavy tumult
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Speaker 1: transverse alone moaneth always my mind's lust, that I fare forth,
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Speaker 1: that I afar, hence seek out a foreign fastness. For
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Speaker 1: this there's no mood lofty man above Earth's mist not
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Speaker 1: though he be given his good, but will have in
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Speaker 1: his youth greed, nor his deed to the daring, nor
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Speaker 1: his king to the faithful, but shall have his sorrow
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Speaker 1: for sea fair whate'er his lord will he hath not
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Speaker 1: heart for harping, nor in ring having, nor winsomeness to wife,
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Speaker 1: nor world's delight, nor any wit else save the waves slash.
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Speaker 1: Yet longing comes upon him to fare forth on the
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Speaker 1: water basque taketh blossom cometh, beauty of berries, fields to fairness,
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Speaker 1: landfares briskier. All this admonisheth man, eager of mood. The
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Speaker 1: heart turns to travel, so that he then thinks on
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Speaker 1: flow ways to be far departing cuckoo calleth with gloomy crying.
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Speaker 1: He singeth summer wood bodeth sorrow. The bitter heart's blood
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Speaker 1: burger knows not he the prosperous man, what some perform
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Speaker 1: where wandering them wildest draweth so that but now my
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Speaker 1: heart bursts from my breast, lock my mood midst the
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Speaker 1: mere flood o'er the whale's acre would wander wild. My
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Speaker 1: earth's shelter cometh off to me, eager and ready. The
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Speaker 1: crying lone flier wets for the whale path the heart
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Speaker 1: irresistibly o'er trails of ocean. Seeing that anyhow my Lord
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Speaker 1: deems to me this dead life on lone and on land,
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Speaker 1: I believe not that any earthwhial eternal stamp, Save there
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Speaker 1: be somewhat calamitous that ere a man's tide go turn
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Speaker 1: it to twain, dissease or oldness or sword. Hate beats
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Speaker 1: out the breath from doom gripped body. And for this
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Speaker 1: every earl whatever, for those speaking after, laud the living,
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Speaker 1: boasteth some last word that he will work. Ere he
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Speaker 1: passed onward, frame on the fair earth, gainst foes his malice,
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Speaker 1: daring adio, so that all men shall honor him after,
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Speaker 1: and his lad beyond them. Remain mid the English I
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Speaker 1: forever a lasting life's blast, the light mid the doughty
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Speaker 1: day's little durable, and all arrogance of earth and riches.
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Speaker 1: There come now no care, nor Caesar's nor gold giving
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Speaker 1: lords like those gone, however in mirth, most magnified, who
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Speaker 1: ever lived in life, most lordliest drear, all excellence, delights,
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Speaker 1: undurable warneth the watch, But the world holdeth, tombs, hideth trouble,
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Speaker 1: The blade is laid low. Earthly glory ageth and seareth
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Speaker 1: no man at all going the Earth's gate, but age
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Speaker 1: fares against him. His face paleth gray haired, he growneth
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Speaker 1: knows gone companions, lordly men are to Earth's overgiven. Nor
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Speaker 1: may he then the flesh cover whose life ceaseth, nor
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Speaker 1: eat the sweet, nor feel the sorry, nor stir hand,
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Speaker 1: nor think in mid heart. And though he strewed the
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Speaker 1: grave with gold, his born brothers, their buried bodies be
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Speaker 1: an unlikely treasure Horde end of poem. This recording is
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Speaker 1: in the public domain. The Alchemists chant for the Transmutation
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Speaker 1: of Metals by Ezra Pound read for LibriVox dot Org
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Speaker 1: by Alan Davis Drake. Sail of klaustra alas azaleas, as
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Speaker 1: you move among the bright trees, as your voices under
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Speaker 1: the larches of paradise make a clear sound, Sell of
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Speaker 1: kloustra alis azalees ramon tea boar bereanngari neath the dark
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Speaker 1: gleam of the sky, under night the peacock throated, Bring
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Speaker 1: the saffron colored shell, Bring the red gold of the maple,
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Speaker 1: Bring the light of the birch tree. In autumn muriels
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Speaker 1: sembeleins aldiarda, remember this fire elane tires alchmena mid the
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Speaker 1: silver rustling of wheat a gradiva an his ardenca from
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Speaker 1: the plum colored lake, in stillness, from the molten dyes
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Speaker 1: of the water, bring the burnished nature of fire. Bresis
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Speaker 1: leonor loika from the wide earth and the olive from
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Speaker 1: the poplars weeping their amber by the bright flame in
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Speaker 1: the fishing torch. Remember this fire Medones with the gold
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Speaker 1: of the sun, the leaf of the poplar, by the
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Speaker 1: light of the amber, Medones, daughter of the sun, shaft
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Speaker 1: of the tree, silver of the leaf, light of the
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Speaker 1: yellow of the amber. Medon's gift of the God, gift
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Speaker 1: of the light, gift of the amber of the sun.
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Speaker 1: Give light to the metal, and he's of roccocord A
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Speaker 1: denca amelis from the power of grass, from the white
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Speaker 1: alive in the seed, from the heat of the bud,
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Speaker 1: from the copper of the leaf in autumn, from the
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Speaker 1: bronze of the maple, from the sap in the bough.
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Speaker 1: Leonor ioana loika, by the stir of the finn, by
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Speaker 1: the trout asleep in the gray green of water. Van
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Speaker 1: Mandatea viera allo dta peak card Manuela from the red
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Speaker 1: gleam of copper. Ease ault E done light rustling of leaves,
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Speaker 1: the airn josselin daring of spirits by the mirror of
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Speaker 1: burnished copper, Oh, Queen of Cypress. Out of erebus, the
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Speaker 1: flat lying breath, breath that is stretched out beneath the world,
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Speaker 1: out of airbus, out of the flat waste of air
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Speaker 1: lying beneath the world, Out of the brown leaf, brown colorless.
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Speaker 1: Bring the imperceptible cool elane teares alcmene, quiet this metal.
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Speaker 1: Let the manes put off their terror, Let them put
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Speaker 1: off their aqueous bodies of fire. Let them assume the
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Speaker 1: milk white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the
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Speaker 1: bones of the metal. Salvage guiscard a mandate rain flakes
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Speaker 1: of gold on the water azure and flaking silver of
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Speaker 1: water alcion phaetona alcmenea parlor of silver, pale luster of latona.
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Speaker 1: By these from the malevolence of the dew guard this
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Speaker 1: alembic elane tirase alodatea quiet this metal. End of poem.
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