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Black Panther - John Hall Wheelock · Murrays Adirondack Tales

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  Speaker 1: The Black Panther by John Hawweelock read for Liebrivox dot
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  Speaker 1: Org by Alissa There is a panther caged within my breast.
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  Speaker 1: But what his name there is no breast shall know,
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  Speaker 1: save mine, nor what it is that drives him so
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  Speaker 1: backward and forward in relentless quest, that silent rage, baffled
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  Speaker 1: but unsuppressed, The soft pat of those stealthy feet that
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  Speaker 1: go over my body's prison, to and fro, trying the
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  Speaker 1: walls forever without rest all day. I feed him with
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  Speaker 1: my living heart. But when the night puts forth her
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  Speaker 1: dreams and stars, the inexorable frenzy reawakes. His wrath is
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  Speaker 1: hurled upon the trembling bars. The eternal passion stretches me apart,
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  Speaker 1: and I lie silent, but my body shakes. End of poem.
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  Speaker 1: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: The Black Panther Part one, Dim Wisdoms by John Hall Wheelock,
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  Speaker 2: red for LibriVox dot Org by Laurie Wilson. Night has
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  Speaker 2: its fear. Night has its fear. As the slow dusk
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  Speaker 2: advances and the day fades out in fire. Along the
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  Speaker 2: starry way, the ancient doubt draws near vague shapes of
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  Speaker 2: dread soft owl or moth, and timid twittering things move
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  Speaker 2: through the growing dark on furtive wings. The bat flits overhead,
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  Speaker 2: and in the house the death watch ticks. The dust
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  Speaker 2: of time is stirred with timorous footfalls, and the night
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  Speaker 2: is heard, the nine of the mouse through the old room.
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  Speaker 2: What phantom's throng? What shapes that to and fro tremble?
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  Speaker 2: And lips that laughed here long ago come back into
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  Speaker 2: the gloom. A whipper will bleakly across the baleful country,
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  Speaker 2: cries from a blurred mouth, and from the west replies echo.
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  Speaker 2: And all is still now from her shell, her body's
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  Speaker 2: prison with the ancient doubt and terror stricken, the scared
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  Speaker 2: soul looks out, asking if all be well. Great kings
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  Speaker 2: have been poets and mighty prophets, Shapes have cried about
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  Speaker 2: the world, or moved in mournful pride, and are no
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  Speaker 2: longer seen from many lands. Their plaint was lifted from
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  Speaker 2: how many ashore sorrows have wailed that are not any more.
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  Speaker 2: They sleep with folded hands, they have their day. Their
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  Speaker 2: cry is loud about the earth. Who come to the
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  Speaker 2: one end? The singing lips grow dumb always in the
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  Speaker 2: one way, though they implore, brief is the plea inflexible.
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  Speaker 2: The fate silence has the last word, and then the
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  Speaker 2: great silence for evermore pondering these, the fretful spirit, in
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  Speaker 2: bewilderment quickens with a vague doubt, not content, broods and
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  Speaker 2: is ill at ease. Her being is thrown in so
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  Speaker 2: frail a pulse, such fleeting breath bears up her dream
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  Speaker 2: across the gulf of death and the obscure abyss. Always
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  Speaker 2: she hears the hurtling chariots of the hurrying blood. Her
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  Speaker 2: shuddling breath, that is the solitude, weaves the one south
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  Speaker 2: she wears. Now First, the vast veil over heaven is
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  Speaker 2: rent and bears the whole shining reality whereat. The soul
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  Speaker 2: sickens and is aghast. Darkness reveals the tragic truth. Her
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  Speaker 2: will sinks, hopeless wings before the inexorable fact of things,
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  Speaker 2: humbling the dread she feels with the old awz confronted
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  Speaker 2: and the flaming mystery. She may not speak, but pondering
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  Speaker 2: suddenly grows silent and withdraws. She may not bear that sight.
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  Speaker 2: The spangled heavens, from east to west stretch out too wide,
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  Speaker 2: the confines of her breast, straining in wonder. There upon
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  Speaker 2: what brow of awful imminence, old thought that stuns is laid,
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  Speaker 2: that chaplet of a million suns upon what forehead?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 2: Who was it wrought this universal glory all around, of
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  Speaker 2: glittering worlds, forever without bound, Great poet, what a thought?
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  Speaker 2: It is a word unutterable that is written there? The
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  Speaker 2: spirit gazing is one voiceless prayer, careless if it be heard.
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  Speaker 2: Her thoughts ascended a star beyond star height, beyond aching height,
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  Speaker 2: upward in adoration, infinite, for ever without end. So shall
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  Speaker 2: it be till Heaven yields her scepter, till the throne
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  Speaker 2: of Night be shaken, and the face be known beyond eternity,
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  Speaker 2: till God divide and rend asunder the embroidered Hymn of Darkness,
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  Speaker 2: till the starry diadem and crown be set aside in deporm.
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  Speaker 2: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 4: The Sorrowful Masquerade by John hal Wheelock read fur Librevox
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  Speaker 4: dot Org by Florence Short. Even as to a music
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  Speaker 4: stately and sad, The young girl's feet begin to move
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  Speaker 4: in a dance and curiously for joy shift and advance
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  Speaker 4: so to a mournful woltz, somber and sweet. All laughing
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  Speaker 4: things move with delighted feet, So all things that draw
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  Speaker 4: light and laughing breath move to the mournful wolts of
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  Speaker 4: life and death. Comedy is a girl dancing in time
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  Speaker 4: to the tragic pipes, sorrowful and sublime, and ever she
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  Speaker 4: laughs back, and as she skips, mimics the mournful music
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  Speaker 4: with her lips. Then for sheer anger at her own pretense,
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  Speaker 4: sobs violently at her own vehemence and boxer tears. But
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  Speaker 4: when the pipings sleep, she needs must cover up her
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  Speaker 4: face and weep. End of poem. This recording is in
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  Speaker 4: the public domain. October Moonlight by John haul Willock, readver
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  Speaker 4: LibriVox dot org by Florence Short. Heaven is like an
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  Speaker 4: empty room tonight, from rim to chili, rim wells the
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  Speaker 4: clear radiance of the cold moonlight, and the earthways are dim.
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  Speaker 4: Who has departed from this perfect place? What fiery one
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  Speaker 4: here set his throne in space under whom vanished? Now
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  Speaker 4: the face of heaven remembers yet emptiness, emptiness. The skies
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  Speaker 4: are bare, and the dark earth no less grows vacant
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  Speaker 4: as a memory everywhere sleeps the cold loveliness old. Is
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  Speaker 4: the earth too old. Her voice is shrill against the
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  Speaker 4: end of things, to the inevitable. Her bitter will grows
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  Speaker 4: humbler as she sings. Now from my breast, the very
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  Speaker 4: soul takes flight, leaving her chambers bare of all save
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  Speaker 4: lonely memory and moonlight, and song is silent there. End
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  Speaker 4: of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: The Flesh and the Dream by John Hall, read for
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  Speaker 2: LibriVox dot org by Luriwilson. The baffled Dreamer, the defeated Christ,
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  Speaker 2: that for your love upon the crosstree hung, Oh, take
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  Speaker 2: him to your bosom, Give him rest close at the
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  Speaker 2: wanton wonder of your breast. O carnal world, Forever well
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  Speaker 2: and young in a poem. This recording is in the
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  Speaker 2: public domain.
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  Speaker 5: Vaudeville by John hal Weelock, read for LibriVox dot org
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  Speaker 5: by April six zero nine zero Win to a cheap
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  Speaker 5: and tawdry tune, the orchestra cried out frantic and violent syncopation,
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  Speaker 5: and began your holy, adorable body in mournful grace, to
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  Speaker 5: move about through the old devious motions, the device of man.
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  Speaker 5: How suddenly then silent magnificence you put to shame the
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  Speaker 5: crowded and garish theater, the strangled cries of flute and trumpet,
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  Speaker 5: O mortal body, bear of our flame through the drear
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  Speaker 5: lands of death, flower of the eternities, revered, reviled, wept
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  Speaker 5: and adored, beseeched, cried out upon by ravening lips of
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  Speaker 5: the ages, the sacred source of things that glimmered in Thrace,
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  Speaker 5: that shone in Rome, that swayed in Babylon, Here moves
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  Speaker 5: to the vile throb of castanets and strings. Oh, through
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  Speaker 5: what generations have you lured? What secret ways man's fainting
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  Speaker 5: heart to be reborn? What splendors move deep in his breast,
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  Speaker 5: when dolorous yeard of reluctant beauty sways, and the old,
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  Speaker 5: weary rhythms of eternal love and of poem. This recording
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  Speaker 5: is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: Nineteen fourteen by John Hall Wheelick, read for LibriVox dot
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  Speaker 2: Org by Larry Wilson. I lift my gaze beyond the night,
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  Speaker 2: and see above the banner a man's hate unfurled, the
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  Speaker 2: holy figure that on calvary stretched arms out wide enough
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  Speaker 2: for all the world in the poem. This recording is
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  Speaker 2: in the public domain.
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  Speaker 3: The Beloved by John hal Weilock read for LibriVox dot
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  Speaker 3: Org by Connor E. Fifty three, Life Beloved. I lay
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  Speaker 3: my heart against your heart, long long I peer into
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  Speaker 3: the dark pool of your eyes. Never will I forsake you,
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  Speaker 3: o adorable one. I cannot comprehend you, but I love you.
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  Speaker 3: In the shadow of your locks. I hide my eyes
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  Speaker 3: from the terrace, but you were not greatly concerned. Closer
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  Speaker 3: and closer I draw toward the dear face. See I
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  Speaker 3: set my lips against your lips, but you do not answer,
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  Speaker 3: steadfast and grave beyond me, your eyes are burning, as
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  Speaker 3: of one that dreams. I am clinging here at your heart.
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  Speaker 3: I am singing my love of you for sheer joy? Mother?
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  Speaker 3: What is it that trembles on your lashes, so soft,
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  Speaker 3: and your lips as salt as the taste of the sea.
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  Speaker 3: Can it be for me? Your eyes are brimming, mother,
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  Speaker 3: even as they smile. Can they be for me? These
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  Speaker 3: drops on your lips so warm?
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  Speaker 6: Dear one?
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  Speaker 3: Do I understand?
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  Speaker 6: At last? O?
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  Speaker 3: Holy draft wine of the world? Bewildering and bitter, sweet,
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  Speaker 3: sacred tears from the depths of what wild love welling
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  Speaker 3: deeper and deeper, Let me drink and draw nirvana divine oblivion.
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  Speaker 3: Bitter is the taste of your lips, Beloved. Though I
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  Speaker 3: lie in the darkness, yet often do I remember you
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  Speaker 3: and wonder and the touch of your lips. How strange
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  Speaker 3: and how sad. End of poem. This recording is in
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  Speaker 3: the public domain.
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  Speaker 7: Proudoom by John Halweelock read for LibriVox dot org by G. Carlson. Proudoom,
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  Speaker 7: The crucifixion of beauty on the cross of mortal destiny,
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  Speaker 7: the eternal law, the thorny crown of death above her brows,
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  Speaker 7: fills me with anger, then with sudden awe. So dear,
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  Speaker 7: so lovely, her adorable sorrow shows in the darkness mid
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  Speaker 7: the tragic doom. The very heart in me leaps up
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  Speaker 7: with laughter and hastens, proud and secret toward the tomb.
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  Speaker 7: End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 7: The Secret One by John Hall Wheelock, read for LibriVox
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  Speaker 7: dot org by G. Carlson. The Secret One here by
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  Speaker 7: this frame and network of the flesh and wires of
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  Speaker 7: her control, surrounded central in her subtle mesh and secret
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  Speaker 7: sits the soul urgent through all the body, while each
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  Speaker 7: part obeys and all are one. While in her dungeons
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  Speaker 7: labors the lone heart to make her will be done.
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  Speaker 7: She reigns the forces in their wild career that bear
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  Speaker 7: her as they go over the dark abyss, and knows
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  Speaker 7: how sheer reaches the gulf below. How dubious her life
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  Speaker 7: and slenderly hangs by a secret thread between eternity and eternity,
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  Speaker 7: she guesses wise and dread, and ever watchful, ever wary.
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  Speaker 7: Set in the center, all alone feels round her cautiously
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  Speaker 7: if any threat be made against the throne. Sometimes along
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  Speaker 7: her nerves, the voice of pain bears tidings to her
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  Speaker 7: hate and frantic wrath, that the old foe again is
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  Speaker 7: clamorous at the gate. She rages up and down, and
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  Speaker 7: to and fro in timid anger runs. If the frontiers
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  Speaker 7: be menaced, it is known all over and at once.
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  Speaker 7: She hears her breast of sorrows night and day at
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  Speaker 7: labor round her brood, the old oblivions, where she sits
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  Speaker 7: at bay, she hears the battling blood echoes assail her
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  Speaker 7: from far worlds that lie beyond the borne of these,
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  Speaker 7: contact and color and the anger cry of the realities
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  Speaker 7: beat on the brain forever. The high dream, by stratagem
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  Speaker 7: of speech, enters her portals, where she sits supreme and silent,
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  Speaker 7: pondering each weighing and challenging for weal or woe, all rumors,
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  Speaker 7: sending out the emissaries of her will that go to
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  Speaker 7: the frontiers about. But most she loves the hour that
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  Speaker 7: beauty brings of rapture and release from the crude hunger
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  Speaker 7: and the cry of things, the hour of her peace, when,
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  Speaker 7: by the inner light that floods her cell, the spirit,
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  Speaker 7: even as here travails in secrecy and joy, to tell
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  Speaker 7: her passion and her fear. Now to the listening soul
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  Speaker 7: in you who read these lines, she tells at all,
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  Speaker 7: how dear her day, how dark shall be, indeed the
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  Speaker 7: hour when night must fall? End of poem. This recording
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  Speaker 7: is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: The Undissuadable Austerity by John Hall Wheelock read for LibriVox
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  Speaker 2: dot Org by Larry Wilson. Less than it is, we
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  Speaker 2: would the truth should seem holy and marvelous. The actual
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  Speaker 2: is but stern. Her lips and bitter is her kiss
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  Speaker 2: upon the brows of dream in the poem. This recording
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  Speaker 2: is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 8: Blind Players by John Hall Wheelock read for librevox dot
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  Speaker 8: Org by Helena Horvat Blind Players. Daybreaks, and the old
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  Speaker 8: drama repeats itself in You. The hind wakes to be hunted,
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  Speaker 8: the huntsman to pursue, the lover and the beloved, each
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  Speaker 8: one doomed to his part, the victor and the vanquished,
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  Speaker 8: the hushed and the hurrying heart. In terror and in triumph,
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  Speaker 8: they play it through again, the old, unchanging drama of
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  Speaker 8: passion and of pain, as though great will has willed
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  Speaker 8: it that in all forms being cast wars on itself forever. Oh,
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  Speaker 8: may they at the last, the falcon and the fledging
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  Speaker 8: He stoops too from the sky. The lips that are
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  Speaker 8: so eager, the lips that would deny when the old
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  Speaker 8: wars ended, when the stern will is done, meet in
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  Speaker 8: eternal pity and know themselves as one. End of poem.
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  Speaker 8: This recording is in the public domain. Travail by John
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  Speaker 8: Halwelock read for librebox dot Org by Helena Horvat. Travail
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  Speaker 8: before the Sacred Beauty of the morn have fade the
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  Speaker 8: wrangling wisdoms of the earth. Wisdom is beauty in the womb.
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  Speaker 8: Unborn wisdom is beauty laboring for birth wisdom. The ghost
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  Speaker 8: of beauty in the wide womb of the world lies
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  Speaker 8: clamoring for life, while the white beauty, the immortal bride
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  Speaker 8: sits throned upon the summit's void of strife. So the
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  Speaker 8: bright flower, bending from the soil, sums up and scorns
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  Speaker 8: the wisdom of the sage, and Helen's beauty soaring beyond toil,
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  Speaker 8: the laboring beauty of the poet's page. So when the
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  Speaker 8: veals of mystery are furled, Earth's wisdom blooms in Heaven's beauty.
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  Speaker 8: Above beauty is all the wisdom of the world, uttered
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  Speaker 8: by the seraphic lips of love and of poem. This
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  Speaker 8: recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: The poet tells of his Love by John Hall Wheelock,
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  Speaker 2: read for LibriVox dot Org by Larry Wilson. How shall
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  Speaker 2: I see of her? That is my life's long rapture
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  Speaker 2: and despair, sorrow, ernal loveliness, to whom each heart beat
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  Speaker 2: is a prayer, utterly endlessly alone, possessing me. Yet unpossessed
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  Speaker 2: the dark, the dreared beloved one that takes the tribute
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  Speaker 2: of this breast demon, disconsolate in vain, in vain, petitioned
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  Speaker 2: and implored. How many a midnight of disdain, darkly and
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  Speaker 2: dreadfully adored beauty, the virgin evermore, out of these arms,
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  Speaker 2: with laughter fled vanished a voice by slope and shore,
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  Speaker 2: haunting the world illusion, dread most secret siren on whose
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  Speaker 2: coast mid spray of perishing song are hurled, All desolate lovers,
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  Speaker 2: all the lost souls and half poets of the world,
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  Speaker 2: through sleepless nights and lonely days, in tears and terror,
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  Speaker 2: served in sought light beyond light, the supreme face that
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  Speaker 2: blinds the adoring eyes of thought. How shall I sing
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  Speaker 2: of her? Nay, all all song, all sorrow, all silence,
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  Speaker 2: of this desperate heart that is her thrall trembles and
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  Speaker 2: tries to tell my love in the poem. This recording
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  Speaker 2: is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 9: The Buried Dream by John Hall Weelock read Flippyfox dot
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  Speaker 9: org I amply I hid a dream amid the sands
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  Speaker 9: of time, and said, now will I go upon my way?
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  Speaker 9: I shall be free? Henceforward from this time, and full
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  Speaker 9: of laughter all the live long day. But it came following,
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  Speaker 9: like the midnight voice of my true love behind her
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  Speaker 9: lattice bars. And it came following like the silver voice
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  Speaker 9: of my lost childhood, strayed beyond the stars, like my
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  Speaker 9: dead self, so laughable, so sad, so foolish, and so lovable.
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  Speaker 9: It rang that for sheer laughter. I was very sad
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  Speaker 9: and took it back into my heart and sang and
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  Speaker 9: a poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 10: Haunted Earth by John Holwelock, read for LibriVox dot org
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  Speaker 10: by Ramamariam. Heaven at last is bared, and the whole
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  Speaker 10: world one radiant room. Black are the shadows and great
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  Speaker 10: pools of gloom by copse and thicket cast. The cattle
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  Speaker 10: brows with sound of gentle breathing, and their breath is
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  Speaker 10: mild and glimmering metals, or beneath drooped branches where they drowse,
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  Speaker 10: while mongst the chill shadows and cold, clear moonlight all about.
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  Speaker 10: A single bat goes dipping in and out softly, and
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  Speaker 10: all is still silence around, save for a cricket lapped
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  Speaker 10: in slumbrous peace lie hill and meadowland. The shining seas
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  Speaker 10: lap on them without sound. It is Earth's cry lifted
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  Speaker 10: in adoration. The old dream Beauty is with her and
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  Speaker 10: her hour's supreme that goes so swiftly by too well.
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  Speaker 10: She knows the sweet allusion from no earthly shore visiteth
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  Speaker 10: the bright word that evermore troubles her darker pose. Her
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  Speaker 10: heart lies bare, drunken, drunken, she lifts a dreamy breast
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  Speaker 10: hour by hour, enrapture and unrest flows the unending prayer.
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  Speaker 10: The path of night reaches from rim to rim, a
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  Speaker 10: radiant road wherein the exalted Beauty walks abroad in wonder
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  Speaker 10: and wild light. Upon what eyes lifted in homesickness now
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  Speaker 10: falls again. The loveliness that haunts the world with pain
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  Speaker 10: lie out of paradise. End of poem. This recording is
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  Speaker 10: in the public domain.
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  Speaker 3: Long Ago by John Hall Wilock, read for LibriVox dot
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  Speaker 3: Org by Connor E.
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  Speaker 7: Fifty three.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, Once your quiet eyes were calm and deep and wistful,
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  Speaker 3: with much dreaming. Long ago your solemn lips, so innocent
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  Speaker 3: of woe and delicately parted, seemed to keep a secret still,
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  Speaker 3: and said and murmured low. But that was long ago,
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  Speaker 3: And I, who saw and loved you from afar, prayed
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  Speaker 3: a hushed prayer, the first I ever prayed, that God
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  Speaker 3: may keep you safe and unafraid. I looked up through
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  Speaker 3: the night at my one star, moving mysteriously in bright arrayed,
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  Speaker 3: and silently, I prayed while you pass singing tenderly and low,
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  Speaker 3: wandering through life's meadows with your slow tread. Death laid
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  Speaker 3: his kiss and your beloved head. But that long ago
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  Speaker 3: end of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 6: Tchaikowski Fifth Symphony by John Hall Wheelock, read for LibriVox
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  Speaker 6: dot Org by David Gertner. My heart cried out in wonder,
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  Speaker 6: can it be the form from which this thrilling passion
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  Speaker 6: flows on tides of beauty and eternal tone audibly now
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  Speaker 6: before the very sense of thronging thousands somewhere in the
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  Speaker 6: clay of Russia lies with folded hands, relapsed into the formless,
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  Speaker 6: And my mind replied the longing that so labors for release,
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  Speaker 6: not wholly in that transient form was trapped wherein we
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: perish miserably here, but has escaped into the form supreme,
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  Speaker 6: a deathless body, and now walks abroad among the generations
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  Speaker 6: of mankind, trailing the robes of the immortal woe, And
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  Speaker 6: still that music poured, Oh sacred heart and secret well
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: head of those streams of song? Are you content? How
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: is it with you now, oh breast whose sorrows overflowed
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  Speaker 6: the world? End of poem. This recording is in the
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  Speaker 6: public domain.
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  Speaker 10: Mirror by John Holwelock, read forlibrivox dot org by Ramamariam.
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  Speaker 10: On the wide Sea of Sleep, I launched from my
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  Speaker 10: gliding boat over the rhythmic deep, on flowing tight. I
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  Speaker 10: float the curving shore around fades in the pale starlight.
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  Speaker 10: A slumbering, sleepy sound goes drifting through the night. It
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  Speaker 10: is the music of dreams along the horizon, blown, It
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  Speaker 10: stirs the glimmering streams where the pale stars lie strown.
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: The stars shine in the deep, reflected from afar. My
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  Speaker 10: eyes tremble with sleep, reflecting sea and star. My eyes
• 25:54
  Speaker 10: look up at me out of the mirrored eyes and
• 25:57
  Speaker 10: in their depths, I see mirrored the stars and skies
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  Speaker 10: around around around my boat, whirls of the stream. I
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  Speaker 10: feel a dizzy sound around me, like a dream where
• 26:08
  Speaker 10: may I wore my bark, How may I lift my head?
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  Speaker 10: What is that silence?
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  Speaker 11: Hark?
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  Speaker 10: The sound of dreams is fled the breath of somber
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  Speaker 10: lies like perfume on the deep night, with a thousand
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  Speaker 10: eyes stares at herself in sleep. End of poem. This
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  Speaker 10: recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 12: Plaint by John hal Wheelock, read for LibriVox dot Org
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  Speaker 12: by Gavin Poulsen. Brief is man's travail here, and transitory
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  Speaker 12: is wrath that soon is spent. Brief his lament lifted
• 26:47
  Speaker 12: in vain against the harsh decrees of the high destinies,
• 26:51
  Speaker 12: that move not for the murmur of his woe, even
• 26:54
  Speaker 12: as snow on sunny meadows, as a lover story told
• 26:59
  Speaker 12: in an April twilight long ago. Brief is he, even
• 27:02
  Speaker 12: as these his little hour of tumult or of glory.
• 27:07
  Speaker 12: And to what end devised we may not guess, considering
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  Speaker 12: as we go towards the same shadows, bearing the same spark,
• 27:15
  Speaker 12: his vanity and utter nothingness. Yet in the mighty dark,
• 27:20
  Speaker 12: dear is the spirit. Grievously we know Earth has one burden,
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  Speaker 12: more one soul the less end of poem. This recording
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  Speaker 12: is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 13: And Dante by John Hall Wheelock, read for LibriVox dot
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  Speaker 13: org by jackpot seven. The evening steals like an ocean
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  Speaker 13: around your plane, whose perfect tones move on the somber
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  Speaker 13: deep with the grave gesture and sigh into a sleep, George,
• 27:56
  Speaker 13: where your hands along the piano string and intricate rhythm keep,
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  Speaker 13: and all the room is starry with your dreaming, and
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  Speaker 13: limitless and vague. Oh, the white square of the window
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  Speaker 13: pane shimmers behind you, there, framing the street where the
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  Speaker 13: first lights are gleaming, transfigured now and fair now, while
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  Speaker 13: the heaven of night grows vast above her. The soul
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  Speaker 13: from her lone dream has sure release. The tumult and
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  Speaker 13: the ancient struggles cease. The wars that beauty wages on
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  Speaker 13: her lover dwindle into a peace. When Schumann speaks so
• 28:34
  Speaker 13: firmly and so sadly, and all the twilight rustles wave
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  Speaker 13: on wave. Oh at that smile his wondering spirit gave,
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  Speaker 13: what new smile in all things shines back so gladly, grown,
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  Speaker 13: dignified and grave. The curtains by the window rise and flutter.
• 28:53
  Speaker 13: The ornaments on the mantel, row on row seem touched
• 28:57
  Speaker 13: with a melancholy of long ago. What is it? The
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  Speaker 13: music dreams but cannot utter Schumann? We know, we know,
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  Speaker 13: Ah George, What shall be said to you who feel it?
• 29:10
  Speaker 13: All the half hope and passion unexpressed? When twilight heaves
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  Speaker 13: more gently in the breast, Ah George, But you, when
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  Speaker 13: words would fain reveal it, smile and divine the rest, Oh,
• 29:23
  Speaker 13: wrap me in Beethoven's storm and thunder. My baffled spirit,
• 29:27
  Speaker 13: with abated breath, flutters upon the verge of life and death,
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  Speaker 13: and all my being whirled along in wonder, dies between
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  Speaker 13: breath and breath. Let me endure within a single pulsing
• 29:41
  Speaker 13: of the quick heart, in a storm of showering rain
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  Speaker 13: of sound, all joy, all grief, each breath again, live
• 29:49
  Speaker 13: through a life complete in one convulsing moment of rapturous pain, silence,
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  Speaker 13: the lamp light through the window, streaming fall on the
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  Speaker 13: listless keyboard, smooth and white, remembered music dreams in the
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  Speaker 13: dull light. And you, too, George, sit silently and dreaming
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  Speaker 13: alone into the night. End of poem. This recording is
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  Speaker 13: in the public domain.
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  Speaker 6: The Dear Mystery by John Holwheelock read for LibriVox dot
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  Speaker 6: Org by David Gartner. Joy and the triumph and the
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: doom of gladness make in my breast a music sweet
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: as sadness. Shall I not sing for sorrow? And again
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: cry out with a sheer joyousness of pain? For all
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: life's moods go murmuring like strings in a low chord,
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: And all things sound like all things through alternations of
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: the grave and glad. Yet in the end, and all
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: things are grave and sad, I feel all things, but
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: cannot comprehend, and run, laughing and weeping to the end
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: of the dear mystery, the faded race, and the deep
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: darkness covers up my face. End of poem. This recording
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  Speaker 6: is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 14: In the Dark City by John Hull Wheelock, read for
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  Speaker 14: LibriVox dot org by Paul Harvey. There is a harper
• 31:35
  Speaker 14: plays through the long watches of the lonely night, when
• 31:40
  Speaker 14: like a cemetery sleeps the dark city with her millions
• 31:45
  Speaker 14: laid each in his tomb. I feel it in my dream,
• 31:49
  Speaker 14: But when I wake suddenly, like some secret thing not
• 31:54
  Speaker 14: to be overheard, it ceases, and the gray night grows
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  Speaker 14: dumb in memory. Linger those veiled dagios, fading, fading, till
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  Speaker 14: with the morning they are lost. What door was opened?
• 32:12
  Speaker 9: Then?
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  Speaker 14: What worlds undreamed of lie around us in our sleep,
• 32:18
  Speaker 14: that yet we may not know? Where is it? One
• 32:22
  Speaker 14: sad plain over and over with such high and dreadful peace,
• 32:29
  Speaker 14: the passion and sorrow of the eternal doom and of poem.
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  Speaker 2: Black Panther, Part two, Space and Solitude by John Hull
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Wilick read for LibriVox dot org by Larry Wilson. Immensity
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: at Noon, I watched in the large hollow of eternal
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: heaven a soaring hat climb slowly toward the Sun through
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: dyers of adoration without end. His flight was a great
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: prayer in the poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 15: See Horizons by John Hall Wheelock read for LibriVox dot
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  Speaker 15: org by and B. Sweet thirteen. The sorrowful expanse from
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  Speaker 15: heaven to heaven, from zone to zone, from deep to height.
• 33:36
  Speaker 15: Above the mute arch of the everlasting Heaven bends over
• 33:42
  Speaker 15: me with your unwearied love, immeasurable, unutterable, and soundless. Why
• 33:51
  Speaker 15: does the east from the west your love is wide?
• 33:55
  Speaker 15: The unfathomable distances are boundless infinite ten on every side.
• 34:03
  Speaker 15: Against the dark strength of your huge endurance, My little
• 34:07
  Speaker 15: being beats her baffled wings, lifts her shrill voice, and
• 34:12
  Speaker 15: wounds the calm, assurance and tenderness of your large evenings.
• 34:20
  Speaker 15: In the vast robes of your serene compassion. She hides
• 34:25
  Speaker 15: her soiled and burning face of shame. Your solemn and
• 34:30
  Speaker 15: inexorbable passion lifts her blurred eyes to meet your glance
• 34:35
  Speaker 15: of flame as bread that for my daily fare is broken.
• 34:42
  Speaker 15: The eternal loveliness before me spread unutterable gesture, word unspoken
• 34:50
  Speaker 15: in the proud silences forever said. The sun puts forth
• 34:56
  Speaker 15: his strength. The reaches shimmer inarticulate rapture, and the proud
• 35:03
  Speaker 15: waters are thrilled. The fields of ocean glimmer with shifting
• 35:09
  Speaker 15: light and overshadowing cloud. Noon upon noon in heaven takes
• 35:16
  Speaker 15: up his station. Day follows night, and night succeeds. Today.
• 35:22
  Speaker 15: Your infinite and lonely meditation sinks with the sunset down.
• 35:28
  Speaker 15: The starry way. Failed is the vast the heaven of
• 35:34
  Speaker 15: evening burning reveals on the large waters of the sea hopelessness, hopelessness,
• 35:43
  Speaker 15: the patient, yearning and dumb caresses of the immensity. What
• 35:51
  Speaker 15: message have you left for me? What token of your
• 35:55
  Speaker 15: lone love, whose laboring will has wrought the firmeniment over
• 36:01
  Speaker 15: my head and smoken unto my nothingness? Your story thought
• 36:08
  Speaker 15: sorrowful is the mighty heart that reaches around this brief
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  Speaker 15: and scornful heart of mine. The dim curve of the
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  Speaker 15: melancholy beaches and vacancies along the lone sea line, in
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  Speaker 15: the huge longing of the far sea spaces the tremulous
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  Speaker 15: rim about the waters. Curled waits the eternal gentleness and
• 36:35
  Speaker 15: traces his sad horizons round the fading world. Cloud beyond cloud,
• 36:45
  Speaker 15: the arch of Heaven goes over seep, beyond seep, the
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  Speaker 15: patient skies descend the illumitble, wastes and waves, discover loneliness,
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  Speaker 15: loneliness with that end inexorbable compassion. May I never reach
• 37:06
  Speaker 15: the last verge and limits of your love beyond me?
• 37:12
  Speaker 15: Still beyond me melts forever, the eternal margins, fading as
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  Speaker 15: I move, And of poem. This recording is in the
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  Speaker 15: public domain.
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  Speaker 2: Of Day Came Night by John haul Wheelock, read for
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  Speaker 2: librovox dot org by Lori Wilson. We lay by the
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  Speaker 2: sea and you. Darkness must make us one. Heaven was
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: thrilled clean through by the trumpets of the sun. The
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  Speaker 2: sea burned gold and blue. The sand in the pale
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  Speaker 2: heat was parched as desert sand. Your wrist, where the
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  Speaker 2: veins meet, the cool veins of your hand, made thirst
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: seem bittersweet. Never a word was said of what must
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: be so soon. In longing and in dread, the golden
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: afternoon burned down till dusk was shed. It was not
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: hope nor fear, yet something of them both that held
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: us trembling here, half eager and half loath for darkness,
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  Speaker 2: dread but dear. Few were the words were spoken, but
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  Speaker 2: in each other's eyes we read the certain token that
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: sealed our destinies. Our wings a pride were broken. So
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: while the waters paled around us, and the west fainted,
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: our hearts that failed in silence were confessed. Silence at
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: last prevailed, And now up her clear stair, the evening
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: star began to climb where heaven was bare. A homing
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: fish hawk ran down avenues of air. Night swallowed up
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: the sun and darkness like a hood, and the sea
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  Speaker 2: breathed on in silence and solitude. The eternal will was
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  Speaker 2: done in the poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 9: The Pilgrim by John hal Wheelock read for librevox dot
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  Speaker 9: org by M. Lee. The cold wind cries across the
• 39:29
  Speaker 9: rolling dunes, the gray saales bleck the margins of the world.
• 39:34
  Speaker 9: I watched the rolling dunes, along the barren sky and
• 39:39
  Speaker 9: wan white waters. By the swift wind hurled, Oh, where
• 39:43
  Speaker 9: are Queen Faustina and Babylon and Tire and pale Troy
• 39:48
  Speaker 9: lost in a silver mist of tears? And I, oh, earth,
• 39:53
  Speaker 9: your child, more old than all these others? What have
• 39:57
  Speaker 9: you done to me these many thousand years? And upon?
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  Speaker 9: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 16: By the Gray Sea by John Hall Weelock red for
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  Speaker 16: LibriVox dot org. Where the Gray Sea lay sad and vast.
• 40:26
  Speaker 16: You turned your head away, and we sat silently. At
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  Speaker 16: last there was no word to say. By the thunder,
• 40:37
  Speaker 16: by the iron thunder of the sea. We could not
• 40:43
  Speaker 16: speak for the lost hope of the glad. Days before
• 40:48
  Speaker 16: we sat beside the long sea slope, watching the endless
• 40:54
  Speaker 16: shore by the thunder, by the iron thunder of the sea,
• 41:02
  Speaker 16: So that, as in the old despair, I reached you,
• 41:08
  Speaker 16: pleading hands but you sat pale and helpless there beside
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  Speaker 16: the baring sands, by the thunder, by the iron thunder
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  Speaker 16: of the sea. End of poem. This recording is in
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  Speaker 16: the public domain.
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  Speaker 6: The Fishawk by John Halwheelock read for Librevox dot Org
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: by David Gertner. On the large highway of the awful
• 41:46
  Speaker 6: air that flows unbounded between sea and Heaven, while twilight
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: screened the sorrowful distances, he moved and had repose on
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: the huge wind of the immensity. He leaned his steady
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: body and long laps of flight, and rose gradual through
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  Speaker 6: broad gyres of ever climbing rest up the clear stair
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: of the eternal sky, and stood throned on the summit.
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: Slowly with his widening breast widened around him, the enormous solitude,
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  Speaker 6: from the gray rim of ocean to the glowing west,
• 42:23
  Speaker 6: headlands and capes forlorn of the far coast, the land
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: rolling her barrens towards the south. He from his throne
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: upon the gigantic wind beheld, He hung, He fanned the
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: abyss for mighty joy to feel beneath him, strown pale
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: pastures of the sea, with Heaven on either hand, the
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: world with all her winds and waters, earth and air fields,
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: folds and moving clouds, the awful and adored arches and
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: endless aisles of vacancy, the fair void of sheer heights
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: and hollows, hailed him as her lord and her lover
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: in the highest, to whom all heaven lay bare, Till
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: from that tower of ecstasy that baffled height, stooping, he sank,
• 43:14
  Speaker 6: and slowly on the world's wide way walked with great
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  Speaker 6: wing on wing, the merciless, proud might, hunting the huddled
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: and lone, reaches for his prey down the dim shore,
• 43:28
  Speaker 6: and faded in the crumbling light. Slowly the dust covered
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: the land like a great hymn. The sound of moving
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: winds and waters was the sea whispered at benediction, and
• 43:41
  Speaker 6: the west grew dim, where evening lifted her clear candles.
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: Quietly Heaven, crowded with stars, trembled from rim to rim.
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  Speaker 6: End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 17: Disdainful Beauty by John Holweelock read four LibriVox dot org.
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  Speaker 17: Buy me the Magnificent on the wide waist, the web
• 44:14
  Speaker 17: of twilight trembling paints low with stars at night, the
• 44:20
  Speaker 17: dying day in the warm west, dissembling crown to his
• 44:24
  Speaker 17: to feet with light. Here by the grave gray see
• 44:29
  Speaker 17: my soul sinks crime by beauty, stab to death. Oh,
• 44:35
  Speaker 17: in the dusk of the world, let me too, dying,
• 44:38
  Speaker 17: mix with all these my breath. There is no answer.
• 44:44
  Speaker 17: And the cold heaven shining star trembles on to star,
• 44:49
  Speaker 17: the virgin moon and the clear west, declining things like
• 44:54
  Speaker 17: a scimitar. End of poem. This recording isn't a public domain.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: My Lonely One by John Hull Wilick read for LibriVox
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: dot Org by Larry Wilson. Even as a hawk's, even
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: as a hawks in the large heavens hollow are the
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: great ways and gracious of your love. No lesser flight
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: or weary wing may follow in those broad gyres where
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  Speaker 2: you rest and move, most merciless, most high, most proud,
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: most lonely, in the clear space between the sky and sea,
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: wheel her huge orbits, where the sea winds only wander
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: the sun roads of immensity. Yet have I known your heart?
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: And of what fashion your love? How great, how hardly
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: to be borne? Your tenderness too perfect for compassion, your
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: divine strength too pure and proud for scorn. You are
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: most beautiful, but it is given but few to find you,
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: fewer still to keep your high path through the solitude
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: of heaven, My lonely one, your watch upon the deep
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: now toward the gold glow of the sunset, splendor, veer
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: your great vans. What haven in the west now draws you,
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: while the mellowing light makes tender your dripping plumes, What
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: islands of the blest? Lift me, Oh, lift me up
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: to you forever, beautiful terror, that your sacred might stoop
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: to me here and save. Oh, let me never sink
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: from you now to share a lesser flight. Even as
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: I pray, my wings of longing fail me and my
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: heart flags in solitude. You move down the night's shore.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: Not praying shall avail me to lift me fallen from
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: your thoughtless love in depoem. This recording is in the
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  Speaker 2: public domain. The Black Panther, Part three, The Lost Traveler's
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  Speaker 2: Dream by John Hall Wheelock, read for LibriVox dot Org
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  Speaker 2: by Laurie Wilson. Wild thought surf of song upon my
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  Speaker 2: heart breaks forever where thou art the dark ocean in
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: my breast of wild love may never rest still. One
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: thought upon her shore breaks in dream forevermore in the poem.
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  Speaker 2: This recording is in the public domain.
• 47:45
  Speaker 14: Journey's End by John Hall Welock read for LibriVox dot
• 47:50
  Speaker 14: Org by Paul Harvey. Forgive me, dear, if I have
• 47:54
  Speaker 14: lost my way in coming home to you through storm
• 47:59
  Speaker 14: and shadow of the gas night. If I did stray still,
• 48:03
  Speaker 14: I was seeking, and I never knew how near me
• 48:06
  Speaker 14: burned the dear and friendly light. Now at your door,
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  Speaker 14: hear the great dark begin alone, I stand and knock,
• 48:14
  Speaker 14: Say not it is too late that I have come. No,
• 48:19
  Speaker 14: take me in, for I am yours, darling. Unlock, unlock.
• 48:23
  Speaker 14: All time to this was but a journey home. End
• 48:27
  Speaker 14: of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
• 48:36
  Speaker 17: Belated Love by John Hall Weeelock read for LibriVox dot org.
• 48:44
  Speaker 17: Bind me, look, magnificent, Come home to me? Are you
• 48:50
  Speaker 17: come home to me? A heart of mine? But in
• 48:53
  Speaker 17: what the Lord's guys in the great hour, Oh twas
• 48:57
  Speaker 17: otherwise love had a man did in days to be caredfully?
• 49:03
  Speaker 17: At what strange lips and in what alien eyes have
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  Speaker 17: you sought mine? Beneath what darkening skies? Come home to
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  Speaker 17: me at last?
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: Come home to.
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  Speaker 17: Me I would not know the reason.
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  Speaker 18: Hereupon this breast of sorrows loose your aching breast, tell
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  Speaker 18: me again and yet again, and say still the eternal word,
• 49:30
  Speaker 18: build bapple on your voiceless tale of son happy quest,
• 49:35
  Speaker 18: how in the night and storm you lost your way?
• 49:40
  Speaker 17: End of poem. This recording is in a public domain.
• 49:45
  Speaker 15: ALI have taken by John Hall Relocke read for LibriVox
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  Speaker 15: dot org. Bye and be sweet thirteen. Well I remember
• 49:56
  Speaker 15: it that night in May, that last sweet night in
• 50:01
  Speaker 15: the old world, long ago, the last air my departure,
• 50:05
  Speaker 15: the dark room that brooded round us, and the drowsy
• 50:09
  Speaker 15: breath out of the courtyard of the linden trees, pungent
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  Speaker 15: and sad. Only your hand I felt reach to me
• 50:19
  Speaker 15: in the darkness, and the beat all through its fingers,
• 50:24
  Speaker 15: of the unconscious blood, your life at battle, in the silence,
• 50:29
  Speaker 15: told immortally to mine its plaintive tail and doom eternal.
• 50:36
  Speaker 15: Only your hand I felt reached to me in the darkness.
• 50:40
  Speaker 15: Yet it seemed in your hand's touched I touched your
• 50:44
  Speaker 15: very self, your very presence, changeable, careless, wild, but oh
• 50:51
  Speaker 15: how poignant, sharp with all the light, and gracious, with
• 50:56
  Speaker 15: dear bounties to bestow, how greatly granted drowsily. Then at last,
• 51:03
  Speaker 15: in the old way, you begged me for some legend
• 51:07
  Speaker 15: out of my boyhood's record, some romance from the far
• 51:12
  Speaker 15: world that bore me. And my voice in the sweet
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  Speaker 15: alien tongue, your mother tongue, moved through the darkness with
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  Speaker 15: a peace unfeigned, for a grave peace was honest, and
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  Speaker 15: the fear that thrilled the midnight fell away the street
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  Speaker 15: slumbered safe where, departing like a ghost's faint footfalls down
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  Speaker 15: the farthest distant side and dwindled out forever. So you
• 51:43
  Speaker 15: slept well. I remember it that night in May, the sleep,
• 51:50
  Speaker 15: the hushed awakenings, full of dread from haunted mirrors of horror,
• 51:56
  Speaker 15: and disdain from dreams of terror, and the mad return
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  Speaker 15: into the bounteous pity of two arms, the comfort and
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  Speaker 15: the kindness, Oh, the return forever and forever, wild and sad,
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  Speaker 15: seraphic with all weariness and pain, and satiate with all love,
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  Speaker 15: as if to slake in one abandoned all the desperate
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  Speaker 15: drought of the years to come upon my own. I
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  Speaker 15: felt the wet salt quivering of your lips, and all
• 52:32
  Speaker 15: your being folded me in urgent to save, urgent, to
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  Speaker 15: hide the approaching loneliness, our bitter portion, prismed in tears,
• 52:43
  Speaker 15: the dusk swam round with dizzy color, the nightingales, Beauty's
• 52:48
  Speaker 15: disdain above the war of things, Beauty's high pity from
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  Speaker 15: her virgin heights, our meeting hearts pierced with a single palm,
• 52:59
  Speaker 15: like a bright sored of sorrow through the breast, driven
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  Speaker 15: and like a bruising sword withdrawn, the sun arose, fled
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  Speaker 15: with the nightingales, the love, the joy, and with him
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  Speaker 15: rose at last the relentless fear, like a harsh face,
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  Speaker 15: never to be pushed back between your face and mind
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  Speaker 15: till all the terror, the loneliness, the irrevocable fate. In
• 53:29
  Speaker 15: the dim twilight hugged me, and a cry up from
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  Speaker 15: myself to yourself would have rent my hesitant lips and
• 53:39
  Speaker 15: the great need to you turned for the last compassion.
• 53:44
  Speaker 15: But you slept at peace, You lay over you, and
• 53:48
  Speaker 15: the dawn I leaned and knew what you truly were.
• 53:55
  Speaker 15: Then a great love triumphing over sorrow, like the life
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  Speaker 15: clearing the west, when sunset's wreath has waned before the
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  Speaker 15: risen stars a mystery welled up through me, radiant, helpless,
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  Speaker 15: where you lay in the compose of sleep, and above time,
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  Speaker 15: our little passion and the circumstance of temporal tumult self
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  Speaker 15: to self. We met and sundered, reverent, faintest breath of flowers,
• 54:31
  Speaker 15: stirred in the twilight, fragrantly, and there the pathos of
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  Speaker 15: our days together filled me with a new wonder. Flooding
• 54:41
  Speaker 15: on me came a host of memories, as to one
• 54:45
  Speaker 15: long dead, lifted beyond his living, till all seemed marvelous
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  Speaker 15: and immortal and benign. And now the hour was come.
• 54:58
  Speaker 15: Beside your quiet breast, I begged forgiveness for my many
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  Speaker 15: sins done to you, though unwitting all the hurt, in
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  Speaker 15: a swift prayer, and even for this last to wake
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  Speaker 15: you to your sorrow. And your lips forgave me yes
• 55:18
  Speaker 15: and the silence. So I touched your lids with kisses,
• 55:23
  Speaker 15: and you woke and wept, but brave to the end,
• 55:28
  Speaker 15: with a heartbreaking bravery, gallant and gracious deer, with sacred eyes,
• 55:35
  Speaker 15: you let me go with a half kiss. We parted
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  Speaker 15: two along the city ways. Already day's vehement tumult had
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  Speaker 15: begun through street and juffle, delly, court and square, the
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  Speaker 15: tireless and eternal heart poured forth. It's my red, humid faces,
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  Speaker 15: grave or glad on the old course of toil, A
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  Speaker 15: corarel hymn from the lips of life, each face a
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  Speaker 15: testimony of some prefiguring love. Oh, the delight, the incredible
• 56:14
  Speaker 15: bounty and sustaining will of passionate longing peopling all the earth,
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  Speaker 15: and the joy of man and woman, The laughing boys,
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  Speaker 15: the milkman clanking along in his cart, and there two
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  Speaker 15: bunneted old women, and there a thief, perhaps with a
• 56:35
  Speaker 15: knight's beauty, sneaking home, yet solemn, all in sacred. With
• 56:41
  Speaker 15: new eyes, I saw them then, and in each face
• 56:45
  Speaker 15: I seemed with a new soul to read the soul
• 56:49
  Speaker 15: beneath through love and pain and sorrow, having passed into
• 56:55
  Speaker 15: the breasts of all humanity, through love and sorrow. Yes,
• 57:00
  Speaker 15: and for your sake, being human, all things human touched
• 57:05
  Speaker 15: to love. This heart of mine made holy, and the
• 57:10
  Speaker 15: thought of the million other hearts beyond the dawn. The
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  Speaker 15: gladness and the sadness and the pain came back upon
• 57:19
  Speaker 15: me like a lifting music. Beautiful and most sorrowful and
• 57:25
  Speaker 15: divine till of vast compassion up through the springs of
• 57:31
  Speaker 15: all my being walled interribly. Ah, even as to myself, unfaithful,
• 57:40
  Speaker 15: the exuberant bounty stooped with arms of pity. So I
• 57:44
  Speaker 15: longed to do, to lose myself at last in the
• 57:49
  Speaker 15: great Self that beams upon the just and the unjust,
• 57:54
  Speaker 15: carelessly shedding radiant light around, compassing finite hate with infinite love,
• 58:02
  Speaker 15: with beauty, ugliness, and death with life. So through that
• 58:07
  Speaker 15: street of pouring souls I passed, torn between grief and astssy.
• 58:13
  Speaker 15: But none guess the immortal secret that I bore close
• 58:17
  Speaker 15: at the fluttering heart, the fear, the joy, the very beach,
• 58:24
  Speaker 15: and memory in my blood, the exquisite sense and lingering
• 58:29
  Speaker 15: pain of you. End of poem. This recording is in
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  Speaker 15: the public domain.
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  Speaker 4: But Love by John Hall Whelock Readfrilibevox dot Org by
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  Speaker 4: Florence Short. Flowing in the sunlight here the river shines
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: like a glass, even as it did last year. On
• 58:56
  Speaker 4: the hillside, the grass bows as the breezes pass. But
• 59:00
  Speaker 4: my love is gone. My love is gone. Where is she? Where?
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: And how has she forgotten me? Yet? Ah, she has
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  Speaker 4: forgotten me now she is too lovely for regret. Would
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  Speaker 4: that I ever could forget? My love is gone, My
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: love is gone. It is so still, so still. The
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: sound of a rumbling train rushes into the hill. Autumn
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: comes again with the old wonder and pain, but love
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: comes never again. And of poem. This recording is in
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  Speaker 4: the public.
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  Speaker 16: Domain and by John haul Weelock rud for LibriVox dot org. Beloved, Oh,
• 59:59
  Speaker 16: adorable and false? Whom have you taken now in the
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 16: dear toils by? What pale margins do your footsteps stray?
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 16: Or what enchanted wood? What valleys hold the lily of
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 16: your loveliness? What hills have known your weight upon them?
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 16: What far shores? Twilight comes tenderly, while evening lifts along
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  Speaker 16: the pallid rim her lonely star. O happy heart on
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  Speaker 16: which your heart is laid. End of poem. This recording
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  Speaker 16: is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 14: The Silence by John haul Wheelock read for LibriVox dot
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  Speaker 14: org by Paul Hervey. In the evening in the quiet park,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 14: we walked together, after so many and after so many years,
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  Speaker 14: we walked again in the evening, in the warm May weather,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 14: after the partings and tears and under the splendor, under
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  Speaker 14: the starry skies, we walked without sound or sigh, in
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  Speaker 14: a calm, unbroken, as the dead walked together in a
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  Speaker 14: long lost paradise, silent, with no word spoken, and of poem.
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  Speaker 14: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 11: Exultation by John Halwheelhawk read for librevox dot Org by
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  Speaker 11: Guy Thriyekutavali, Dallas, Texas. Before the dawn, the very thought
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  Speaker 11: of you that wakes me as the morning wakes the
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  Speaker 11: night floods all my heart with most exultant joy. The
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  Speaker 11: thought of you that rises with the stars when evening
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  Speaker 11: wheels all glittering through the dark, floods all my heart
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  Speaker 11: with the most exultant joy. Oh, life, and joy and
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 11: breath and death of me. With every breath I draw
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  Speaker 11: you in like air. Oh, I shall die a few
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  Speaker 11: off you, a few, though now you banish me forevermore,
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  Speaker 11: never to look upon your face again. Thank you that
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  Speaker 11: I shall sorrow for my love, though I shall lie
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  Speaker 11: upon my bed of death and know you have forgotten
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  Speaker 11: me forever. Thank you that I shall sorrow for my love, Oh,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 11: life and joy and breath and death of me. I
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  Speaker 11: shall cry out, exultant and lie dead. Oh I shall
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  Speaker 11: die a few, a few of you, Oh love, I
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 11: love you better than you know. I love y as
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  Speaker 11: the water loves the sea. I love y as the
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  Speaker 11: twilight loves the dark. The trumpets of the morning to
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  Speaker 11: my heart, from shining towers blow the thought of you.
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  Speaker 11: The waves of evening flood my heart with you, Oh, life,
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  Speaker 11: and joy and breath and death of me. With every
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  Speaker 11: breath I draw you in like air. Oh I shall
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  Speaker 11: die of you, A few of you. End of poem.
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  Speaker 11: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 19: The Black Panther by John Halwheelocke read forlibrivox dot Org
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  Speaker 19: by Tracy Anne. My heart is like a shady grove
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  Speaker 19: that harbors for June, my thoughts like songbirds mad with
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 19: love under the moon. On all the windy boughs, they
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  Speaker 19: sit and in the blowing But one bird silently enters
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  Speaker 19: it and sings alas. Then all the rest grow sad,
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  Speaker 19: And still that made a happy noise. There is no
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  Speaker 19: sound on all the hill but that one voice, faint
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  Speaker 19: with the memories in his breast. It is the thought
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  Speaker 19: of you, And when it ceases, all the rest are
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  Speaker 19: silent too. End of poem. This recording is in the
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  Speaker 19: public domain.
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  Speaker 2: Sorrowful Freedom by John Hall Wheelock, read for librovox dot
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  Speaker 2: org by Larry Wilson. Long Days, I begged of my
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: heart to be released from a love that haunted me,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: the memory of a last embrace, a tearness, and a
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  Speaker 2: lovely face. Free me, I said, from an old love,
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  Speaker 2: the and the mighty thereof. Free to follow and take
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  Speaker 2: my fill of beauty and laughter where I will. Never
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: a word, my heart replied. But on a day the
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  Speaker 2: old love died, vanished, never to come again. All the
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  Speaker 2: passion and all the pain come. We are free to
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  Speaker 2: take our feel of beauty and laughter where we will,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: O heart, we are free forevermore from the old sorrow
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: we loved before in the poem. This recording is in
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  Speaker 2: the public domain. Starless Morning by John haul Willock, read
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: for lebrivox dot org by Laurie Wilson. Towards starless Morning,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: when deep night had bowed on slumber's pillow my unhappy
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: head through the dim room. It drifted like a cloud
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: and swayed in silence by my lonely bed. What had
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: they done to you? That dumbly so you covered with
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  Speaker 2: your hands your quiet face dear, out of kindness, that
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  Speaker 2: I might not know what horror there had wrought its
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: dark disgrace. It was those hands, too passionately, too well loved,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: that betrayed you, oh most piteous guest. And to my heart,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: in the intolerable rage of despair, that shadow I had pressed,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: mingling in a shrill cry our grief supreme, My sweet,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: my pretty. But as I had drawn that anguish to
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: my arms, they clasped a dream, and Heaven glimmered with
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: the approaching dawn in the poem. This recording is in
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  Speaker 2: the public domain.
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  Speaker 11: Phantom by John Holwheelhawk, read for LibriVox dot Org by
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 11: Guy Thriegodavali, Dallas, Texas. Along the edge of the great
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  Speaker 11: moving sea that moaned forever on her barren bars, the
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  Speaker 11: old sad love came back again to me, moving quietly
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 11: under the quiet stars, Oh sad love, do not smile
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 11: upon me so nodding so gently with your little head.
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  Speaker 11: All the old wonder of your eyes is dead, and
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 11: the sea winds have chilled you long ago. End of poem.
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  Speaker 11: This recording is in the public domain. Legend by John Hallwheelhawk,
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  Speaker 11: read for LibriVox dot Org by Guy Thriegodavali, Dallas, Texas.
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  Speaker 11: Where are you hid from me? Beloved one that I
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 11: am seeking through the lonely world, A wanderer on my
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 11: way home to you. Dark is the night, and perilous
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 11: the road. At many abreast and longing have I learned
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  Speaker 11: at many a wayside worshiped, and my heart is tired
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  Speaker 11: from long traveling. Perhaps in centuries to come you wait
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  Speaker 11: for me, and are as yet an iris by the
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 11: stream lifting her single blossom, or the faint trembleous case
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 11: upon the hills, and we have missed each other. Oh,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 11: if it be so, then this song reached to the
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 11: verge of doom agees unborn to find you. Where you are,
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  Speaker 11: my lonely one, And like a murmuring string, faint with
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 11: one music, endlessly repeat to you, not even knowing I
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 11: was yours, her plaintive burden from the dolorous past, telling
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 11: of one upon a hopeless quest, how in the dark
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 11: of time he lost his way end of poem. This
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  Speaker 11: recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: Four. The Divine Fantasy by John Hull Wheelick, read for
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: LibriVox dot Org by Larry Wilson Brother from what dim
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: world of Lonely light trembling on Heaven's pinnacles tonight is
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: lifted your sad face of love, while you stare upward
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: toward me, staring upward too, at that faint flame which
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: is your home, between the leafy branches of these popular scene,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: so hushed so far. Perhaps tonight you scan your starry
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: heaven for the star of Man high in the trellis
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: of eternity and glittering arches. Hun Perhaps, like me, you
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  Speaker 2: too look up and wonder is it fair that world
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  Speaker 2: of yours are their great cities? There, populous millions, hearts
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  Speaker 2: that beats, these clear meadows and far mountains, shoreless seas,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: shadows of moving armies, thrones that shake. Does the heart
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: thrill for love? There? Does it break? Tell me? Are
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: there hushed gardens, quiet tombs, and mighty poets weaving at
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: their looms? The old dim wisdoms that out weary time?
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: And saints and lifted saviors, and sublime face and high
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  Speaker 2: fortitudes beyond belief, all blotted out by one small popular
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  Speaker 2: leaf in the light wind of languid summers. Stirred brother,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: what news out of the night, What word from the
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: frontiers of my mind? And beyond our ken of mysteries unimagined,
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: yet of men compass by travail of your spirit. Oh,
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: could you but reach to us? Could we but know?
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  Speaker 2: Across the imperturbable old dark, some answering glimmer of the
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  Speaker 2: ancient spark lifted some token tangible to sense of the
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  Speaker 2: indomitable intelligence that thrones on matter, language visible, crying eternity,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: And all is well, brother, be of good cheer. We
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: too have known, not lonely moves, not utterly alone your
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: sad fraternity through the dark of God. But the Confederate
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: Legions are abroad. Life's flag advances on the starry way,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: and consciousness, still battling, still at bay, holds the bright
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: forts against oblivion. What answering thrill would round the planet run,
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  Speaker 2: for we are one. All consciousness is won, whatever form
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  Speaker 2: it where, however dressed in gray or glamor in whatever breast,
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  Speaker 2: It lifts its longing, glimmering. It moves through the green way.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: It stamps with startled hooves the upland pastures of the world,
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: and soars in heaven with the eagle. On bright shores,
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  Speaker 2: it basks a sunny body, or in dread, lifts from
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  Speaker 2: the undergrowth a snaky head and darts a flickering tongue.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: It is most clear in the lark's throat among the
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  Speaker 2: grasses here that couts the ant. It turns a tiny
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  Speaker 2: eye around the darkness, scampers in a shy in the
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  Speaker 2: scared rabbit through the murmuring air, wheels with the beetle,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: and where heaven is bare, southward with the wild crane.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: At summer's close, hungering and eternal pilgrim goes on quests implacable,
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  Speaker 2: and from the eyes of the poised panther gleam the
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  Speaker 2: cruelties of its stern need that rose the world and
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: rends with tooth or talon, and the hawk descends on
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  Speaker 2: this stunt squirrel in the squirrel moans as the hawk strikes,
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  Speaker 2: darkens the earth with bones of its own wreck, and
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  Speaker 2: hungering again knows in its body the old spur, For
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: when hunger, the shadow cast by death draws near life
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  Speaker 2: on her thousand thrones, feels the one fear, and in
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: the line's roar at dusk is heard the unassuageable, insistent
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  Speaker 2: word of urgent, being clamorous to be reeking and wrought
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  Speaker 2: upon eternally mingling a mixed, inextricably, blentt victor and vanquished
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  Speaker 2: in one sacrament, body with body of delight and death.
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  Speaker 2: It moves in splendor, lists the shuddering breath of the
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  Speaker 2: spent stag, and in the mind of man rebels against
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  Speaker 2: the miserable plan, flings its frail web of thoughts the
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  Speaker 2: path of suns in heaven and in holy wrath on
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: blood of murdered brothers. Nourished still thunders to all the world,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: thou shalt not kill. And the worm's death is in
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  Speaker 2: the sparrow's song. And I have seen it in the gnats,
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  Speaker 2: that throng old shadowy force into multuous dance, Or in
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  Speaker 2: the little measuring worm, advance inch by slow inch along
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  Speaker 2: this waying stem of some exalted flower, or lift the
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  Speaker 2: hem of the frail butterflies embroidered cloak in gentle breathings
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  Speaker 2: that the sun did stroke caressingly with fingers of his heat.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: Or from the dog urn upward and entreat with eyes
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  Speaker 2: of adoration or of fear, the great god Man, What message,
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  Speaker 2: master deer, from the dim heights beyond me, where you
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: are in the mare's tremulous whinny, in the far lowing
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: of cattle from the upland sward, or wail of whipper wheels,
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: twilight poured on pools of silence plaintively, or cry of
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  Speaker 2: the lone wolf beneath the glittering sky of soundless winter.
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  Speaker 2: I have heard the same splendor speak forth and utter
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  Speaker 2: the one name of life, the dreadful, the magnificent, all afternoon,
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  Speaker 2: the passion of Heaven spent on earth, its fiery fury
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  Speaker 2: and blind bright lightnings of dread and laughters of delight,
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  Speaker 2: down shuttering deeps of shaken thunder, where the delirious longing
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  Speaker 2: loosened its sorrowing hair of wind and shower and overshadowing
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: cloud across the beloved face in darkness bowed, or glimmering
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: light revealed and cried aloud for anger of utter ecstasy,
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: and shed the wild love of the rushing rain that
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  Speaker 2: sped to the thrilled heart, consenting of the dim and
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: rapturous earth that lifted up to him, drowsed lips of
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  Speaker 2: thirsty flowers, and the cup of every flower for joy
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: was lifted up and drank and swayed, so wearied out
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  Speaker 2: at length flagged the bright pulses and the ebbing strength
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: with muttering of remembered thunders passed down the large shores
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  Speaker 2: of evening, till at last the exhausted heaven of twilight
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  Speaker 2: from afar shone, washed of all her sorrows, and a
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: star brooded above the fading storm and saw the winnowed
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  Speaker 2: reaches deepening into awe of gradual darkness, and the fields
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  Speaker 2: that lay all drenched and wearied out at dusk of day,
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  Speaker 2: and the worn end of things. While far away the
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  Speaker 2: receding fury moaned. And now they lie in the same
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: peace around me, and the sky holds up her stars.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: Now in the rain drenched wood, the tree toad drinks
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: the rain and finds its good and trills for joy.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: The sliding waters grieve quietly. Now the bat begins to
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: weave with intricate motion on the clouded gloom of glamorous
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: starlight mingled in gray gloom, is dipping flight among the
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: darkened boughs and dreamy vistas, and the little mouse furtively
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: hurries through the lane, his eye turned up in terror.
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  Speaker 2: As the howl goes by on softest feathers of silence. Overhead,
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  Speaker 2: flits the dim shadow of the ancient dread, hooded and
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: vague the cruelty of his beak, bent on old lustful mysteries,
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: a squeak, a scuffle, beating of wings, and in the
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: lane silence, and the old wrong is done again. That
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: was ere Adam, the triumphant heart and the defeated, each
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: one doomed to his part, They play it through the
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: old tragedy, where one present still wars and still is
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: warred upon, slays and is slain, while fiercely all around
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: shakes the eternal love song in shrill sound, a grasshopper
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: and cricket, sleepless flow, the immortal tides of longing to
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: and fro on waves of music. Endless is the prayer
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: of life to the beloved. Everywhere, lifted in adoration on
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: dark shores, beats the insistent passion that implores the one
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: dear breast of pity or disdain to be reborn, To
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: be reborn again, nor perish wholly. The blind earth is thrilled,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: as with vague rights, accomplished dreams, fulfilled marriage and mystic union.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: All along her brimming meadows rings the bridal song and
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: chant ecstatic that great heart of hers is touched.
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  Speaker 11: Now.
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  Speaker 2: The eternal longing stirs from hill to hollow and hollow
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: to clear hill, in many voices mingled, or the still
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: ecstasy of the firefly that trails among the shadows, where
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: the starlight fails, his body's burning love forever flows, the
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: dreadful drama to its stately clothes, an endless ending, the
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: fierce carnival of death and passion, wherein each and all
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: mix and are mingled, slaughter, blend, and pass each into other.
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  Speaker 2: The high poem that has no end and no beginning,
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: that the oneself in all living forms, beneath the sun
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: and on all worlds around him and above, weaves on
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  Speaker 2: strands of hunger, death and love. I see it all.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: I hear it all, and lie under my swaying poplars,
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: and the sky is fretted with frail leaves, the mortal
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: dreams in my heart. I hear the night hawks scream,
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: shatter the silver silences. I hear the owl's clear trimolal
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: rise over clear. The mouse's blood along his veins has
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: made his love note lovelier, and the night afraid a
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: beauty's dreadful secret. And I know soft shapes of stealth
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: that in the darkness go of furry lusts. And nine hungers,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: small twittering things, obscene that flit or crawl in furtive secrecy,
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: vague mouths and blurred of the night creature or nocturnal bird,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: amorphous moth and bat wing. And the earth, with all
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: her burrows, nooks and nests of birth, crowded and wreck
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: of many a perished might by the ebbed waters of
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: life's fierce delight, washed up on shores of silence, spoiled
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: and spurned altars where once the sacred fire burned forms
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: flowing back into the formlessness in the supreme embrace a
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: long caress, mixing their bodies with the mother mold, and
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: all the heaven of stars around me, rolled whose brooding
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: eyes have stared so many an age upon this theater
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: of lust and rage, of death and adoration. And a
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: breeze rustles the branches of the poplar trees, deer spark
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: that shynest in the solitude one consciousness, that in the
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: brotherhood of all Earth's living creatures, movest on the shaken
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: ramparts of oblivion, whose starry cry across the darkness hurled
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: makes music in the silence of the world, life whose
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: sole splendor in red slaughter, spills the blood of its
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: own breast, in many wills wars on the one will,
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: and in wrath or dread feeds on itself and on
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  Speaker 2: itself being fed, shines forth in song and color, gilds
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: the dress of the green fly, and pours its loveliness
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: and rapture on the earth. In theaters, a crowded congregation
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: sits or stirs watching it south itself the spectacle, and
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: builds the swallows breast, and shapes the shell, and all
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: these mansions of its thought that are between the morning
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: and the evening star on earth, in heaven, or in
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: the glimmering caves and photos of the world below. The
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: waves butchers the ox and glad him by his beat,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: and the young mother's downward smile is sweet or seated
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: on his body, walks abroad in symphonies and poems and
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: prayers to God sins, and has conscience and repenting sins.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: And in the lowly patient spider spins its fragile web,
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: and in these words of mine, flings out its groping utterance,
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: line by line across the intangible abyss of thought, with
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: infinite passion, infinite patience, rot dread, loveliness, be strong, in me,
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  Speaker 2: be strong to utter forth your meaning in my song
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  Speaker 2: in the poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 6: The Lion House by John Hall Wheelock, recorded for Lee
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 6: Brivox tut Org by David Gertner. Always the heavy air,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 6: the dreadful cage, the low murmur of voices, where some
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 6: force goes to and fro in an immense despair, as
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 6: through a haunted brain with tireless footfalls. The obsession moves again,
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 6: trying the floor, the walls forever, but in vain, in
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 6: vain proud force, A mte shrewder than yours did spin
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 6: around your rage, that bright prison of steel, wherein you
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 6: pace for my delight, And oh my heart, what doom,
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 6: what warier will has wrought the cage within whose room
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 6: paces your burning thought, for the delight of whom. End
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  Speaker 6: of poem. This recording is in the public domain. End
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  Speaker 6: of the Black Panther by John hal Wheelock,