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Brand Act IV Part 1 · The Henrik Ibsen Library

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  Speaker 1: Act IV, Part I of Brand by Henrik Ibsen. Translated
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  Speaker 1: by Charles Harold Hereford, 1853-1931. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. recording by expatriate in bangor maine act
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  Speaker 1: four part one christmas eve in the manse the room
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  Speaker 1: is dark garden door in the background a window on
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  Speaker 1: one side a door on the other agnes in mourning
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  Speaker 1: stands at the window and gazes out into the darkness
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  Speaker 1: agnes still he comes not comes not yet oh how
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  Speaker 1: hard with gloom beset still to wait and still to
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  Speaker 1: cry winning never a reply fast they fall the softly
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  Speaker 1: sifted snowflakes in a shroud like woof they have swabbed
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  Speaker 1: the old church roof listens hark the garden latch is
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  Speaker 1: lifted steps a man's step firm and fast hurries to
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  Speaker 1: the door and opens it is it thou come home
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  Speaker 1: at last brand comes in snowy in travelling dress which
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  Speaker 1: he removes during what follows agnes throwing her arms about
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  Speaker 1: him oh how long thou wast away go not from
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  Speaker 1: me go not from me all alone i cannot sway
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  Speaker 1: the black clouds that overcome me what a night what
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  Speaker 1: days have been these two and the night between brand
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  Speaker 1: i am with thee child once more he lights a
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  Speaker 1: single candle which throws a pale radiance over the room
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  Speaker 1: thou art pale agnes and worn and sad i have
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  Speaker 1: watched and longed so sore and this little leafy bough
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  Speaker 1: little it was all i had saved from summer until
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  Speaker 1: now to bedack our christmas-tree i have hung it there
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  Speaker 1: brand see his the bush was so we said ah
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  Speaker 1: t was his it crowned him dead bursts into tears
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  Speaker 1: look from the snow it peers yonder his oh god
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  Speaker 1: brand his grave agnes oh that word brand have done
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  Speaker 1: with tears agnes yes be patient i'll be brave but
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  Speaker 1: my soul is bleeding still and the wound is raw
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  Speaker 1: and new sapped is all my strength of will oh
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  Speaker 1: but better shall ensue once these days are overworn thou
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  Speaker 1: shalt never see me mourn brand keeps thou so god's
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  Speaker 1: holy night agnes ah too much thou must not crave
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  Speaker 1: think last year so sweet and bright this year carried
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  Speaker 1: from my sight carried carried brand loudly to the grave
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  Speaker 1: agnes shrieks name it not brand with lungs that crack
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  Speaker 1: named it must be if thou shrink named till echo
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  Speaker 1: rolls it back like a billow from the brink agnes
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  Speaker 1: ah the word gives thee too pain how so passionless
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  Speaker 1: thou boast thee on thy brow i see the stain
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  Speaker 1: of the agony it cost thee brand on my brow
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  Speaker 1: the drops that lie are but sea-spray from the storm
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  Speaker 1: agnes and that dewdrop in thine eye has it fallen
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  Speaker 1: from the sky no ah no it is too warm
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  Speaker 1: tis thy heart's dew brand agnes wife let us bravely
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  Speaker 1: face the strife stand together never flinch struggle onward inch
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  Speaker 1: by inch oh i felt a man out there surges
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  Speaker 1: o'er the reef were dashing horror of the storm-lit air
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  Speaker 1: stilled the sea-gull hail was thrashing down upon the boiling
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  Speaker 1: sea in my skiff that mid fjord quivered mast and
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  Speaker 1: tackle creaked and shivered tattered sails blew far alee scarce
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  Speaker 1: a shred of them remaining every nail in stanchion straining
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  Speaker 1: from the beetling summit sundered down the avalanches thundered stiff
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  Speaker 1: and stark with corpse-like faces sat the rowers in their
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  Speaker 1: places then the soul in me waxed high from the
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  Speaker 1: helm i ruled them all knowing well that one thereby
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  Speaker 1: had baptised me to his call agnes in the tempest
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  Speaker 1: to be strong eager in the stress of fight that
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  Speaker 1: is easy that is light think of me who all
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  Speaker 1: day long still must croon without relief the low swallow-song
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  Speaker 1: of grief think of me who have no charm for
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  Speaker 1: the tedious pain of life me who far from war's
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  Speaker 1: alarm lack the fiery joys of strife think oh think
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  Speaker 1: of me who share not noble work but brood and
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  Speaker 1: weight me who to remember dare not and who never
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  Speaker 1: can forget brand thou no noble life-work thou never was
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  Speaker 1: it great as now listen agnes thou shalt know what
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  Speaker 1: to me our loss has brought oftentimes my light is
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  Speaker 1: low dim my reason dull my thought and there seems
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  Speaker 1: a kind of gladness in immeasurable sadness agnes in such
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  Speaker 1: hours i see god as at no other near oh
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  Speaker 1: so near it seems to me i could speak and
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  Speaker 1: he would hear like a lost child then i long
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  Speaker 1: to be folded to his breast and be gathered by
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  Speaker 1: his strong tender father arms to rest agnes brand oh
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  Speaker 1: see him so alway to thy supplication near god of
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  Speaker 1: love and not of fear brand no i may not
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  Speaker 1: bar his way nor run counter to my call i
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  Speaker 1: must see him vast sublime as the heavens a pigmy
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  Speaker 1: time needs a giant god withal oh but thou mayst
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  Speaker 1: see him near see him as a father dear bow
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  Speaker 1: thy head upon his breast there when thou art weary
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  Speaker 1: rest then return with face aglow from his presence fair
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  Speaker 1: and free bear his glory down to me worn with
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  Speaker 1: battle-thrust and throe see my agnes so to share is
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  Speaker 1: the soul of wedded life his the turmoil and the
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  Speaker 1: strife hers the healing and the care this and this
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  Speaker 1: alone the true wedlock that makes one of two since
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  Speaker 1: thou turnest from the life of the world to be
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  Speaker 1: my wife boldly cast thy lot with me this the
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  Speaker 1: work appointed thee mind the stir and stress of fight
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  Speaker 1: battle in the burning sun watching in the winter night
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  Speaker 1: but for thee when all is done to my parching
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  Speaker 1: lips to hold love's full wine-cup and to fold neath
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  Speaker 1: the breastplate's iron stress the soft robe of tenderness surely
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  Speaker 1: that work is not light agnes every work that i
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  Speaker 1: have sought is too hard for my weak skill all
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  Speaker 1: the fibres of my will gather round a single thought
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  Speaker 1: like a vision seems it still let me have of
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  Speaker 1: tears my fill help me so myself to see what
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  Speaker 1: i am and ought to be brand last night in
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  Speaker 1: stillest hush opened he my chamber door on his cheek
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  Speaker 1: a rosy flush and his little shirt he wore toddled
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  Speaker 1: so with childish tread to the couch where i lay
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  Speaker 1: lonely mother called to me and spread both his arms
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  Speaker 1: and smiled but only as if praying make me warm
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  Speaker 1: yea i saw oh my heart bled brand agnes agnes
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  Speaker 1: ah his little form was a cold brand needs it
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  Speaker 1: must pillowed in the chilly dust brand that which lies
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  Speaker 1: beneath the sod is the course the child's with god
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  Speaker 1: agnes shrinking from him o canst thou without remorse thus
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  Speaker 1: our bleeding anguish tear what thou sternly call'st the course
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  Speaker 1: ah to me my child is there where is body
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  Speaker 1: there is soul these apart i cannot keep each is
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  Speaker 1: unto me the whole elf beneath the snow asleep is
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  Speaker 1: my very elf in heaven many a raw wound must
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  Speaker 1: be riven ere thy deep disease give way agnes yet
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  Speaker 1: have patience with me pray let me follow not be
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  Speaker 1: driven give me thy strong hand and guide me oh
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  Speaker 1: and gently gently chide me thou whose voice in thunder
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  Speaker 1: tones vibrates in the hour of strife for the soul
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  Speaker 1: that still with groans fights a fight for every life
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  Speaker 1: hast thou no soft piteous lay to beguile its pangs
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  Speaker 1: away ne'er a message to uplift point me to the
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  Speaker 1: dawn-fired rift God, as thou wouldst have me view him,
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  Speaker 1: is a monarch on his throne. How dare I then
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  Speaker 1: turn unto him with my lowly mother's moan? Brand, wouldst
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  Speaker 1: thou rather happily turn to the god thou knewst before? Agnes, never, never,
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  Speaker 1: never more. And yet oftentimes I yearn towards the daybreak,
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  Speaker 1: towards the light, towards the sunshine warm and golden. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the ancient saw is right. lightly lifted hardly holden all
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  Speaker 1: too vast this realm of thine too gigantic to be
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  Speaker 1: mine thou thy word thy work thy goal will austere
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  Speaker 1: and steadfast soul overhead the beetling height and the barrier
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  Speaker 1: fjord below grief and memory toil and night all vast
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  Speaker 1: were the church but so brand starting what the church
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  Speaker 1: again that thought is it bred in instinct blind in
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  Speaker 1: the air agnes shaking her head sadly oh ask me
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  Speaker 1: not to find reasons for my thought instinct steals upon
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  Speaker 1: the sense like a perfume too and fro blowing whither
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  Speaker 1: blowing whence i perceive it that is all and unknowing
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  Speaker 1: yet i know that for me it is too small
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  Speaker 1: brand truth may be from dreams divine in a hundred
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  Speaker 1: hearts i find self-begotten this one word even in hers
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  Speaker 1: whose frantic call from the mountain-side i heard it is
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  Speaker 1: ugly for tis small so she said and like the
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  Speaker 1: rest left her meaning half expressed then of women came
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  Speaker 1: a score yes it is too small they cried they
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  Speaker 1: would have it spread and soar like a palace in
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  Speaker 1: its pride agnes ah i see it clear thou the
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  Speaker 1: woman art whom god gave me for his angel guide
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  Speaker 1: safe alike from doubt and fear through the darkness thou
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  Speaker 1: hast trod keeping still the even way where i blindly
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  Speaker 1: went astray thee no glamour captivated once thy finger showed
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  Speaker 1: the faded region where my life-work waited checked me as
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  Speaker 1: i sought sublime to the vault of heaven to climb
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  Speaker 1: turned my soaring glance within and that kingdom bade me
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  Speaker 1: win now a second time thy word penetrates my soul
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  Speaker 1: like day guides me where i vainly erred glorifies my
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  Speaker 1: weary way small the church is be it so then
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  Speaker 1: a greater church shall grow never never did i wot
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  Speaker 1: all god gave me giving thee now that cry of
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  Speaker 1: thine's for me leave me not oh leave me not
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  Speaker 1: agnes all my sorrow i will quell i will dry
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  Speaker 1: the tears that well seal in still sepulchral sleep memory's
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  Speaker 1: lone castle keep lay oblivion like a sea open between
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  Speaker 1: it and me i will blot the joyous gleams from
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  Speaker 1: any little world of dreams live thy wife alone for
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  Speaker 1: thee brand steep the path is high the goal agnes
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  Speaker 1: lead nor sternly spur my soul brand in a greater
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  Speaker 1: name i call agnes one of whom thou saidst that
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  Speaker 1: still he accepts the steadfast will though the flesh be
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  Speaker 1: weak withal going whither agnes agnes smiles ah to-day home
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  Speaker 1: must have its feast array thou my lavishness didst chide
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  Speaker 1: mindest thou last christmastide all the chamber flashed with lights
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  Speaker 1: from the christmas tree there hung toys and wreaths and
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  Speaker 1: quaint delights there was laughter there was song brand for
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  Speaker 1: us this year also shall the christmas candles glow there
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  Speaker 1: shall all be decked in dight for the great still
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  Speaker 1: feast to-night here if haply god should peep he of
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  Speaker 1: meek and lowly mind shall his stricken children find babes
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  Speaker 1: that humbly understand to have felt their father's hand gives
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  Speaker 1: them not a right to weep seest thou now of
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  Speaker 1: tears a sign brand presses her to him a moment
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  Speaker 1: child make light that work is thine agnes smiles sadly
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  Speaker 1: thou thy greater church shalt rear oh but end ere
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  Speaker 1: spring is here goes brand willing in her torment still
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  Speaker 1: willing at the martyr's stake flesh may flag and spirit
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  Speaker 1: break but unbroken in her will lord to her poor
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  Speaker 1: strength add thine be the cruel task not mine at
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  Speaker 1: thy bidding to unchain angry vultures of the law swift
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  Speaker 1: to swoop with ravening maw and her heart's warm blood
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  Speaker 1: to drain i have strength to stand the strain to
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  Speaker 1: fold agony let me bear but be merciful to her
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  Speaker 1: a knock at the outer door The mayor enters. The mayor.
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  Speaker 1: A beaten man, I seek your door. Brand. A beaten man?
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  Speaker 1: The mayor. As such, I stand before you. When I
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  Speaker 1: opened war and sought to drive you from the land,
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  Speaker 1: the end I augured, I confess, for you was not just, well, success. Brand. Indeed.
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  Speaker 1: The mayor. But though my cause I boast the better,
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  Speaker 1: I'll contend no more. brand and why the mayor because
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  Speaker 1: you have the most brand have i the mayor oh
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  Speaker 1: that you can't ignore folks flock to you by sea
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  Speaker 1: and shore and in the whole of my confine a
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  Speaker 1: spirit has of late been rife which god's my witness
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  Speaker 1: is not mine whence to conclude is only due that
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  Speaker 1: it originates with you here is my hand we'll end
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  Speaker 1: the strife war such as we wage does not cease
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  Speaker 1: howe'er the vanquished cry no more the mayor why what
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  Speaker 1: should be the end of war but reasonable terms of
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  Speaker 1: peace to kick at pricks is not my way i
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  Speaker 1: made of common human clay when at your breast the
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  Speaker 1: lance you feel it is but reason to give place
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  Speaker 1: with but a switch to parry steel tis just to
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  Speaker 1: make a volte-face left of your cause the sole defender
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  Speaker 1: it is the wisest to surrender two things are noticeable
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  Speaker 1: here first that you call me strong of men i
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  Speaker 1: have the larger part the mayor that's clear brand now
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  Speaker 1: possibly but when shall rise the great dread day of
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice who will have more supporters then the mayor of
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice why goodness me that's just the day we never
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  Speaker 1: see at least the sacrifice no worse is than draughts
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  Speaker 1: upon good people's purses the age is too humane to
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  Speaker 1: bring any more costly offering and what's most vexing is
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  Speaker 1: that i myself have all along been noted of those
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  Speaker 1: who the humane promoted and hindered sacrifice thereby so that
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  Speaker 1: it may be fairly said i put the axe to
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  Speaker 1: my own head or at the least laid rods in
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  Speaker 1: store to baffle all i've struggled for you may be
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  Speaker 1: right but furthermore i hardly know how you can dare
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  Speaker 1: surrender your own cause as lost be rods or be
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  Speaker 1: they not the cost man's work is what he's fashioned
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  Speaker 1: for and paradise for him lies there twixt him and
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  Speaker 1: it though oceans swell and close at hand lies satan's
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  Speaker 1: quarter may he for that cry toil farewell the way
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  Speaker 1: to hell's distinctly shorter the mayor to that i answer
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  Speaker 1: yes and no some final haven man must win if
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  Speaker 1: all our toil brings nothing in who on a barren
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  Speaker 1: quest will go the fact stands thus we want reward
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  Speaker 1: for every labour light or hard and if in arms
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  Speaker 1: we miss the prize we gain our point by compromise
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  Speaker 1: brand but black will never turn to white the mayor
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  Speaker 1: respected friend the gain is slight of saying white as
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  Speaker 1: yonder bray when the mob's shouting black as snow brand
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  Speaker 1: you join them possibly the mayor why no i rather
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  Speaker 1: shout not black but grey the times humane ask apt
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  Speaker 1: compliance not blunt and absolute defiance we stand on democratic
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  Speaker 1: ground where what the people thinks is right shall one
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  Speaker 1: against the mass propound his special views on black and
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  Speaker 1: white in short you having a majority are best entitled
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  Speaker 1: to authority so i submit as they submitted with you
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  Speaker 1: my humble lot i cast and may i by no
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  Speaker 1: soul be twitted for not contending to the last folks
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  Speaker 1: now consider i perceive petty and poor all i achieve
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  Speaker 1: they say there's something of more worth and richer harvest
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  Speaker 1: wrung from earth they are not willing as they were
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  Speaker 1: the necessary might to spare and the best cause if
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  Speaker 1: will's not in it there's very little hope to win
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  Speaker 1: it believe me tis no easy thing to drop one's
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  Speaker 1: plans for roads and bridges for tapping mires and draining
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  Speaker 1: ridges and more besides that was in swing but good
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  Speaker 1: lord what's a man to say if he can't win
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  Speaker 1: he must give way patiently trust that time's his friend
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  Speaker 1: and to the blast astutely bend now the folk's favour
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  Speaker 1: i've foregone and just the way it first was won
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  Speaker 1: ay ay and by another track i'll get my old
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  Speaker 1: possession back so all your cunning all your art aim'd
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  Speaker 1: but to win the people's heart the mayor god help
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  Speaker 1: me no the common good and profit of this neighbourhood
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  Speaker 1: has been my single sole desire but i admit there
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  Speaker 1: did conspire the worker's hope of worthy hire for day's
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  Speaker 1: work honestly pursued the fact stands thus a resolute and
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  Speaker 1: able man with sense to boot demands to see his
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  Speaker 1: labour's fruit and not to drudge and sweat and groan
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  Speaker 1: to profit an idea alone with the best will i
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  Speaker 1: can't afford to throw my interests overboard and give my
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  Speaker 1: brains without reward i've a large household to supply a
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  Speaker 1: wife and of grown girls a store who must be
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  Speaker 1: first provided for belly that's empty throat that's dry the
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  Speaker 1: idea scarce will satisfy where mouths so many must be
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  Speaker 1: filled and any man who should demur for him i
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  Speaker 1: have but one reply he's an unworthy householder brand and
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  Speaker 1: now your object is the mayor to build brand to
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  Speaker 1: build the mayor why yes the common state to better
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  Speaker 1: and my own to boot first i will build up
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  Speaker 1: the repute i stood in till a recent date the
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  Speaker 1: election soon will be on foot so i must set
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  Speaker 1: some scheme afloat some booming enterprise promote thus i regain
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  Speaker 1: my lost authority and check the wane of my majority
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  Speaker 1: now i've reflected to compete with wind and tide wins
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  Speaker 1: no man's praises the folk want lifting as the phrase
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  Speaker 1: is a work for which i'm all unmeet i can
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  Speaker 1: but set them on their feet which can't be done
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  Speaker 1: unless they please and here are all my enemies whence
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  Speaker 1: i've resolved since such the case is after ripe thought
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  Speaker 1: to find a basis for making war with poverty brand
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  Speaker 1: you would uproot it the mayor no not i it
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  Speaker 1: is a necessary ill in every state we must endure
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  Speaker 1: it yet may we with a little skill in certain
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  Speaker 1: forms confined secure it if only we begin in time
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  Speaker 1: he who would grow a bed of crime let him
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  Speaker 1: with poverty manure it i'll set a dam to this
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  Speaker 1: manure brand how the mayor do you take me i
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  Speaker 1: can cure a want of long and bitter proof by
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  Speaker 1: building for the town's behoof a pest-house for the afflicted
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  Speaker 1: poor pest-house i call a thing projected to rid us
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  Speaker 1: of the crime infected and i reflected to the pest-house
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  Speaker 1: might well be added an arrest-house the cause with its
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  Speaker 1: effect confined the selfsame bars and bolts behind and nothing
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  Speaker 1: but a wall between and while my hand is in
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  Speaker 1: i mean in the same block to build withal a
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  Speaker 1: wing for balls and ballottings social and business gatherings with
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  Speaker 1: platform and assembly hall in short a half political half
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  Speaker 1: social smart and festive guest-house brand sorely required this most
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  Speaker 1: of all but yet there's one thing needed more the
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  Speaker 1: mayor you mean a madhouse well yes indeed a very
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  Speaker 1: peremptory need that was my own idea before but now
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  Speaker 1: by friendly counsel wrought i've utterly renounced the thought for
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  Speaker 1: who's to furnish the supplies for such a giant enterprise
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  Speaker 1: to put a madhouse up would come believe me to
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  Speaker 1: a pretty sum if all whom need and merit fitted
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  Speaker 1: should be within its walls admitted we must not build
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  Speaker 1: for our caprice but note time's current as it glides
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  Speaker 1: the world moves on with giant strides last year abundance
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  Speaker 1: famine this you see to what a monstrous girth the
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  Speaker 1: folks necessities have swelled talents for everything on earth headlong
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  Speaker 1: by seven league boots propelled are swarming madly to the
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  Speaker 1: berth thus it would be too dear a jest to
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  Speaker 1: build posterity a nest and let self-wifed children go this
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  Speaker 1: tooth i say we can't afford out with it therefore
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: by the lord brand and then there's the great hole
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: you know for any matter than the rest the mayor
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: delighted yes it would mostly be to spare why brand
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: you've hit the nail-head there if fortunate our project's fate
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: is we get to boot a madhouse gratis here sheltered
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: by the selfsame roof and by the selfsame flag defended
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: all the essential strands are blended that tinge and tone
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: our social woof here in one haven disembogues the flood
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: of paupers and of rogues with lunatics who roamed at
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: large subject to no man's check or charge here too
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: are freedom's highest reach the election's strife the storm of
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: speech and here our council hall for framing measures to
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: meet each public pest and here our feast hall for
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: proclaiming how well we'll guard the past bequest you see
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: then if our projects stand the cragsman has at his
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: command all he in reason can demand the right to
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: live as he thinks best god knows how slender are
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: resources but once our enterprise enforces i trust we may
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: be with impunity styled a well-organized community but then the
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: means the mayor ay there's the knot as in all
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: other things in this hardly to contributions wrought is will
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: and if your help i miss i furl my flag
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: without a thought but with your eloquent alliance i'll bid
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: all obstacles defiance and when all's done your kind compliance
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: believe me shall not be forgot brand in short you'd
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: buy me the mayor for my aim i should prefer
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: another name i seek with general good in view that
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: gulf of difference to cross which you from me and
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: me from you has severed to our common loss in
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: an ill-omened hour you came the mayor unfortunately yes i
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: own it your recent loss i might have known it
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: but your brave bearing reassured me and need of public
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: credit lured me brand in grievous or in gladsome season
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  Speaker 1: i render help where need is plain but for another
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: weighty reason this time your mission is in vain the
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: mayor and which pray brand i am building too the
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: mayor you building you adopt my view brand not altogether
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: pointing out of the window do you see the mayor
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: yonder brand yes the mayor that great ugly stole why
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: that's the parsonage granary brand no not that but the
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: ugly small the mayor the church brand i mean to
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: build it great the mayor that by the devil you
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: shall not no man shall alter at one jot my
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: plan twould utterly frustrate mine's urgent only waits the word
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: by yours i'm absolutely floored two weapons can't at once
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: be wielded yield therefore brand i have never yielded the
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: mayor you must man here build my arrest-house my pest-house
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and my festive guest-house build all the madhouse comprehending and
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: who'll ask where the church wants mending and why condemn
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: it now to fall twas well enough a while ago
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: possibly now it is too small the mayor i never
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: saw it full i know brand even a single soul
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: is scanted and has not room therein to soar the
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: mayor shaking his head in amazement which single soul but
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: proves the more how sorely my asylum's wanted changing his
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: tone let the church be is my advice one may
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: regard it in some wise as a rich heirloom of
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: our age in fact a noble heritage which we not
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: lightly may remove nay if my building project crashes i
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: like a phoenix from the ashes will live again in
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: public love as one chivalrously intent to save our ancient
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: monument here stood a heathen fane of old twas in
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: king bele's reign no doubt then later heroes more devout
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: founded the church with looted gold all sacred in its
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: antique dress grand in its simple stateliness till our own
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: days it towered sublime but all these glories of old
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: time lie long since buried deep in mould of all
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: surviving sign bereft the mayor just so they are so
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: very old that not a trace of them is left
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: but in my late grandfather's day a wall hole still
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: defied decay brand a wall hole the mayor fit to
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: hold a ton brand but the wall's self the mayor
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: oh that was gone in plain terms then i am
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: compelled to say your scheme is out of court a
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: barbarous and unparalleled horrible sacrilege in short and then the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: money do you dream these folks are so profuse in
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: spending that they'll contrive new cost by lending existence to
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: a half-hatched scheme when with a little deftness they may
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: so far patch the crumbling wall that in our time
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: it will not fall but just go out the fields
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: survey you'll find i'm winner after all brand from no
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: man will i ring a jot to give my god
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: house harbourage with my own goods it shall be wrought
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: in that one work my heritage to the last penny
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: shall be spent now mayor are you still confident that
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: you can shake me from my thought the mayor with
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: folded hands i stand as from the clouds drop down
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: such things are even in a town scarce heard of
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: and yet here for us who long to the necessitous
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: have closed our purses and our doors you loose this
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: flood of gifts unbounded that ripples flashes foams and pours
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: no brand i'm utterly dumfounded brand in thought i long
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: ago resigned my wealth the mayor yes whispered hints have
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: flown pointing to something of the kind but i regarded
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: them as wind how many men give all they own
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: without a tangible return however that's your own concern go
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: on i'll follow you're in feather you can act freely
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: work and sway brand we will build the church together
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: brand what you are willing to give way the mayor
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: dear gods my witness that i am and shall be
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: while my wits are sound when one would fatten pamper
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: cram another milk and shear and flay where think you
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: will the flock be found death and destruction i'm your
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: man i'm fire and fury for the plan thrilled agitated
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: nay affected providence prompted the design that led me to
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: your door to-night for sure without the hint of mine
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: your plan had scarcely been projected or at the least
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: scarce seen the light and thus the church conceived aright
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: will by my means have been erected but don't forget
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: we must lay low that towering relic of the past
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: the mayor looking out seen in the twofold glimmer cast
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: by the new moon in the fresh snow it seems
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: a sort of rubbish heap what mayor the mayor it
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: is too old to keep i fail entirely to explain
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: it till now it never struck my eye the weather-cock
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: stands all awry it would be monstrous to retain it
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: and where are architecture's style rightly regarded in the pile
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: what terms can give that arch its due an architect
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: would call it vile and really i must share his
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: view and then that roof with moss tufts blowing bless
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: me they're none of belles growing no we may overmuch
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: assert the reverence for ancient glories one fact at least
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: there's no o'erthrowing that this old rotten hut no more
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: is but just a very heap of dirt brand but
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: if the people's voice should storm at those who seek
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: to lay it low the mayor i will it though
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: they all cry no this christmas with the least delay
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: i'll put the thing in proper form and launch it
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: smoothly on its way i'll write i'll agitate i'll sway
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: ay ay you know the stuff i'm made of and
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: if i cannot hire or hound the foolish flock to
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: help to end it with my own hands i'll rive
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: and rend it timber by timber to the ground nay
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: though i had to call the aid of my wife
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: and all my girls as well down it should come
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: by death and hell brand this language has another sound
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: than that which earlier from you fell the mayor to
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: be humane is to repress all manner of one-sidedness and
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: sure if truth the poet utters precisely what is to
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: be sought in thinking is the winged thought that is
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: to say the thought that flutters farewell taking his hat
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: i have to see the band end of act four
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  Speaker 1: part one recording by expatriate in bangor maine