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Short Poetry Collection 170 - Various · Classic Jane Austen Library

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  Speaker 1: Amarillus by Edwin Arlington Robinson read for LibriVox dot Org
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  Speaker 1: by Wynston Tharp. Once, when I wandered in the woods alone,
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  Speaker 1: an old man tottered up to me and said, come, friend,
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  Speaker 1: and see the grave that I have made for Amarillus.
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  Speaker 1: There was in the tone of his complaints such quaver
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  Speaker 1: and such moan that I took pity on him and obeyed,
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  Speaker 1: and long stood looking where his hands had laid an
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  Speaker 1: ancient woman, shrunk to skin and bone. Far out beyond
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  Speaker 1: the forest, I could hear the calling of loud progress,
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  Speaker 1: and the bold, incessant scream of commerce ringing clear. But
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  Speaker 1: though the trumpets of the world were glad, it made
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  Speaker 1: me lonely, and it made me sad to think that
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  Speaker 1: Amarillus had grown old and a poem. This recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Linda Olsen
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  Speaker 2: Phytak for LibriVox dot org. It was many and many
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  Speaker 2: a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that
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  Speaker 2: a maiden there lived, whom you may know by the
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  Speaker 2: name of Annabel Lee. And this maiden she lived with
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  Speaker 2: no other thought than to love and be loved by me.
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  Speaker 2: I was a child, and she was a child in
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  Speaker 2: this kingdom by the sea. But we loved with a
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  Speaker 2: love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee,
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  Speaker 2: with a love that the winged seraphs of heaven coveted
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  Speaker 2: her and me. And this was the reason that long ago,
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  Speaker 2: in this kingdom by the sea, a wind blew out
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  Speaker 2: of a cloud, chilling my beautiful annabel Lee, so that
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  Speaker 2: her high born kinsmen came and bore her away from me,
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  Speaker 2: to shut her up in a sepulcher. In this kingdom
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  Speaker 2: by the sea. The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
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  Speaker 2: went envying her and me. Yes, that was the reason,
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  Speaker 2: as all men know, in this kingdom by the sea,
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  Speaker 2: that the wind came out of the cloud by night,
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  Speaker 2: chilling and killing my annabel Lee. But our love it
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  Speaker 2: was stronger by far than the love of those who
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  Speaker 2: were older than we, of many far wiser than we.
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  Speaker 2: And neither the angels in heaven above nor the demons
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  Speaker 2: down under the sea, can ever dissever my soul from
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  Speaker 2: the soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee. For the moon
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  Speaker 2: never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabelle Lee,
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  Speaker 2: and the stars never rise. But I see the bright
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  Speaker 2: eyes of the beautiful Annabel Lee. And so all the
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  Speaker 2: night tide I lie down by the side of my darling,
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  Speaker 2: my darling, my life, and my bride in her sepulcher,
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  Speaker 2: there by the sea, in her tomb, by the side
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  Speaker 2: of the sea. End of poem. This recording is in
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  Speaker 2: the public domain.
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  Speaker 3: Another song by Samuel Daniel read for LibriVox dot org
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  Speaker 3: by Phil Shamph Are the shadows that we see? And
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  Speaker 3: can shadows pleasure give pleasures? Only shadows be cast by
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  Speaker 3: bodies we conceive, and are made the things we deem
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  Speaker 3: in those figures which they seem. But these pleasures vanish fast,
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  Speaker 3: which by shadows are expressed. Pleasures are not if they
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  Speaker 3: last in their passing? Is their best glory is most
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  Speaker 3: bright and gay in a flash? And so away feed apace, then,
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  Speaker 3: greedy eyes on the wonder you behold, take it sudden
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  Speaker 3: as it flies, though you take it not to hold.
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  Speaker 3: When your eyes have done their part, thought must link
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  Speaker 3: it in the heart and a poem. This recording is
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  Speaker 3: in the public domain.
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  Speaker 4: The et Explorer by Clarence James Dennis readily rebooks dot
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  Speaker 4: org by Augie pug Once a little sugar ant made
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  Speaker 4: up his mind to roam to fare away, far away,
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  Speaker 4: far away from home. He'd eaten all his breakfast, and
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  Speaker 4: he had his mars consent to see what he could
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  Speaker 4: chance to see. And here's the way. He went up
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  Speaker 4: and down a fern frond, round and round a stone,
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  Speaker 4: down a gloomy gully where he loathed to be alone,
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  Speaker 4: Up a mighty mountain range seven inches high, through the
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  Speaker 4: fearful forest grass that nearly hid the sky out, Along
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  Speaker 4: a bracken bridge, bending in the moss, till he reached
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  Speaker 4: a dreadful desert that was feet and feet across twas
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  Speaker 4: a dry, deserted desert, and a trackless land to tread.
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  Speaker 4: He wished that he was home again, and tuck'd up
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  Speaker 4: tight in bed. His little legs were wobbly, his strength
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  Speaker 4: was near spent, And so he turned around again. And
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  Speaker 4: here's the way he went back, along a bracken bridge,
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  Speaker 4: bendy in the moss, through the fearful forest grass, shutting
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  Speaker 4: out the sky, Up a mighty mountain range seven inches high,
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  Speaker 4: down a gloomy gully where he loathed to be alone,
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  Speaker 4: Up and down a fern frond, round and round a stone,
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  Speaker 4: a dreary ant a weary ant resolved no more to roam,
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  Speaker 4: He staggered up the garden path and popped back home.
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  Speaker 4: End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 4: Babel the Gait of the God by Gordon Bottomly read
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  Speaker 4: to Libyvox dot org by algaepug lost ours in end
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  Speaker 4: copeless primeval props of the new threatening sky and first
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  Speaker 4: rude digits of awe remonstrance and uneasy power thrust out
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  Speaker 4: by man when speech sank back in his throat. Then
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  Speaker 4: had the last rocks ended bubbling up, and rhythms of
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  Speaker 4: change within the heart begun by a blind need that
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  Speaker 4: would make springs and winters, pylons and monoliths went on
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  Speaker 4: by ages, Mycenae and Great Zimbabwe came about. Cowed hearts
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  Speaker 4: in this conceived a pyramid that leaned to hold itself upright,
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  Speaker 4: a thing fore doomed to limits death and an easy apex.
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  Speaker 4: Then postulance for the Star's previous wisdom standing on Carthage
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  Speaker 4: must get nearer still. While in Chaldea, an altitude of
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  Speaker 4: God being mooted and Asaurian unearthed upon a mountain, stirring
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  Speaker 4: as eyes of floods and alterations of the sea. A
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  Speaker 4: round walled tower must rise upon Senna Temple and escape
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  Speaker 4: to God the ascertained. These are decayed, like Time's teeth
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  Speaker 4: in his mouth, black cavities and gaps. Yet Earth is
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  Speaker 4: darkened by their deep, sunken and unfounded shadows and memories
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  Speaker 4: of man's earliest theme of towers. Space. The old source
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  Speaker 4: of time should be undone eternity defined by men who
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  Speaker 4: trusted another tea would equal them with God. A city
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  Speaker 4: of grimed brick kilns, squat truncations, hunched like spread toads,
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  Speaker 4: yet high beneath their circles of low packed smoke, assemblages
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  Speaker 4: of thunder that glowed upon their undersides by night, a
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  Speaker 4: lit like storm. Small shadowless workmen's toil, meaningless stumps, upturned beres,
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  Speaker 4: roots remained in fields of mashy mud and trampled leaves.
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  Speaker 4: While if a horse died hauling plaster, is not on
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  Speaker 4: a flank to clip its sweaty coat. A builder leans
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  Speaker 4: across the last wide courses, his unadjustable, unreaching eyes fail
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  Speaker 4: under him before his glances sink on the clouds upper
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  Speaker 4: layers of sooty curls, where some long lightning goes like
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  Speaker 4: swallows downward. But at the wider gallery next below recognize
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  Speaker 4: master masons with pricked parchments. That builder, then as one
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  Speaker 4: who condescends unto the sea and all that is beneath him.
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  Speaker 4: His hairy breast on the wet mortar calls, how many
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  Speaker 4: fathoms is it yet to heaven? On the next eminence,
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  Speaker 4: The orgulous king nim Road stands up, conceiving he shall
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  Speaker 4: live to conquer God. Now that he knows where God is,
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  Speaker 4: his eager hands push up the tower in thought. Again,
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  Speaker 4: his shaggy inhuman height strides down among the carpenters. Because
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  Speaker 4: he has seen one shape, an eager woman on a
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  Speaker 4: door post. He drives his spear beam through him. For
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  Speaker 4: wasted day, little men hurrying running here and there within
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  Speaker 4: the dark and stifling walls, descent from every sound and
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  Speaker 4: shoulder empty hods. The God's Great Altar should stand in
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  Speaker 4: the crypt among our Earth's foundations. The God's Great Altar
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  Speaker 4: must be the last far coping of our work. It
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  Speaker 4: should inaugurate the broad made stair, oh end it. It
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  Speaker 4: must stand toward the east. But here a grave, contemptuous
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  Speaker 4: youth cries out, womanish babblers, how can we build God's altar?
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  Speaker 4: Ere we divine its foreordained true shape. Then one, it
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  Speaker 4: is a better stalk for deeds, tis more and should
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  Speaker 4: be here like the king's brow. It has the nature
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  Speaker 4: of a woman's bosom. The tortoise first created signifies it.
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  Speaker 4: A blind and rudimentary navel shows the source of worship
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  Speaker 4: better than horned moons. Then a lean giant is not
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  Speaker 4: a calyx needful, because round grapes on the statues well
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  Speaker 4: expressed become the ladher of incense nadal lamps. Yet apes
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  Speaker 4: have hands, thad butt and carved red crystal, birds, molten,
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  Speaker 4: touchy talc veins, bronze buds, crumble, ubrid, ubla, guants, ist
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  Speaker 4: rad eger gaul. Words said to often seem such ancient
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  Speaker 4: sounds that men forget them or were lost in them.
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  Speaker 4: The guttural glottis, chasms of language reached a rhythm, a gasp,
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  Speaker 4: were curves of immortal thought. Man with his bricks was building, building,
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  Speaker 4: yet where dawn and midnight mingled and woke no birds
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  Speaker 4: in the last courses, building past his knowledge. A wall
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  Speaker 4: that swung for towers can have no tops, No cord
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  Speaker 4: can meet the universal segment Earth has not basis yet
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  Speaker 4: the yielding sky invincible vacancy was there discovered. Though piled
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  Speaker 4: up bricks should polp the sappy bulx wait generated secrecy
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  Speaker 4: of heat, cankerous chowering crevice's fronds of flame. End of poem.
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  Speaker 4: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: Bathroom Sturge by Robert Surtees dreadfullybrivox dot Org by Sonya
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  Speaker 5: Bathroom Sturge. They shot him dead at the ninstanrig, beside
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  Speaker 5: the headless cross, and there left him lying in his
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  Speaker 5: blood upon the moor and moss. They made the beer
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  Speaker 5: of the broken bough, the sauch, and the aspen gray.
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  Speaker 5: And they bore him to the lady chapel and waked
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  Speaker 5: him there all day. A lady came to that lonely bower,
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  Speaker 5: and through her robes aside, she tore her linglung, yellow hair,
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  Speaker 5: and knelt at bathroom's side. She bathed him in the
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  Speaker 5: lady well, his wounds so deep and sare, and she
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  Speaker 5: plaited a garland for his breast, and a garland for
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  Speaker 5: his hair. They rowed him in a lily sheet and
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  Speaker 5: bare him to his earth, and the grayfriars sung the
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  Speaker 5: dead man's mass as they passed the chapel guard. They
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  Speaker 5: buried him at the mirk midnight, when the dew fell
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  Speaker 5: cold and still, when the aspen grave for good to play,
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  Speaker 5: and the mist clung to the hill. They dug his grave,
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  Speaker 5: but the barefoot deep by the edge of the nine
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  Speaker 5: sten burn, and they covered him over with the heather flower,
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  Speaker 5: the moss, and the lady fern. A grayfriars stayed upon
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  Speaker 5: the grave and sang till the morning tide. And a
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  Speaker 5: friar shall sing for Bathroom's soul, while the headless cross
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  Speaker 5: shall bide. End of poem. This recording is in the
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  Speaker 5: public domain.
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  Speaker 6: Bird Parliament a nineteenth century translation by Edward Fitzgerald of
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  Speaker 6: the twelfth century poem by the Persian Sufi mystic Farid
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  Speaker 6: ud din Attar, sometimes called Conference of the Birds, read
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  Speaker 6: by Josh Mitteldorf. This LibriVox recording is in the public
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  Speaker 6: domain Bird Parliament. Once on a time, from all the
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  Speaker 6: circles seven between the steadfast Earth and rolling heaven, the
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  Speaker 6: birds of all note plumage and degree, that float in
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  Speaker 6: air and roost upon the tree, And they that from
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  Speaker 6: the waters snatched their meat, and they that scour the
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  Speaker 6: desert with their long feet. Birds of all natures known
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  Speaker 6: or not to man, flocked from all quarters into full divan,
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  Speaker 6: on no less solemn business than to find or choose
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  Speaker 6: a sultan caliph of their kind, for whom, if never
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  Speaker 6: theirs or lost, they pined. The snake had his twas said,
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  Speaker 6: and so the beast his lion, lord, and man had
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  Speaker 6: his at least, And that the birds who nearest were
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  Speaker 6: the skies, and went apparelled in its angel dyes should
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  Speaker 6: be without under no better law than that which lost
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  Speaker 6: all others in the maw, dispersed without a bond of union, nay,
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  Speaker 6: or meeting to make each upon the other's prey. This
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  Speaker 6: was the grievance. This the solemn thing on which the
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  Speaker 6: scattered commonwealth of wing from all the four winds, flying
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  Speaker 6: to cloud that met and blackened heaven, and thunder loud
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  Speaker 6: with sound of whirring wings and beaks that clashed down
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  Speaker 6: like a torrent on the desert, dashed till by degrees
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  Speaker 6: the hubbub and pell mell into some order, and precedence fell,
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  Speaker 6: and proclamation made of silence, each in special accent, but
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  Speaker 6: in general speech that all should understand, and seemed him
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  Speaker 6: best the congregation of all wings addressed, and first, with
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  Speaker 6: hearts so full as from his eyes ran weeping up
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  Speaker 6: rose Tagidar the Wise, the mystic mark upon whose bosom
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  Speaker 6: showed that he alone, of all the birds, the road
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  Speaker 6: had traveled, and the crown upon his head had reached
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  Speaker 6: the goal. And he stood forth and said, O, birds,
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  Speaker 6: by what authority divine I speak? You know by his
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  Speaker 6: authentic sign and name emblazoned on my breast and bill,
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  Speaker 6: whose counsel I assist at and fulfill at his behest.
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  Speaker 6: I measured, as he plann'd the spaces of the air
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  Speaker 6: and sea and land. I gaged the secret sources of
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  Speaker 6: the springs, from cloud to fish. The shadow of my
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  Speaker 6: wings dreamed over sleepy deluge, piloted the blast that bore
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  Speaker 6: Solayman's throne, and led the clouds of birds that canopede
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  Speaker 6: his head. Whose word I brought to Balkis, And I
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  Speaker 6: shared the council that with Assaf he prepared. And now
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  Speaker 6: you want a khliph, And I know him and his
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  Speaker 6: whereabouts and how to go, and go alone I could
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  Speaker 6: and plead your cause alone for all, but by the
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  Speaker 6: eternal laws, yourselves, by toil and travel of your own,
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  Speaker 6: must for your own delinquency atone Were you indeed not
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  Speaker 6: blinded by the curse of self exiled that still grows
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  Speaker 6: worse and worse, yourselves would know that though you see
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  Speaker 6: him not, he is with you this moment, on this spot,
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  Speaker 6: your Lord, through all forgetfulness and crime, here there and everywhere,
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  Speaker 6: and through all time. But as a father whom some
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  Speaker 6: wayward child, by sinful self will has unreconciled waits till
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  Speaker 6: the sullen reprobate, at cost of long repentance, should regain
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  Speaker 6: the lost. Therefore yourselves to see you as you were
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  Speaker 6: seen yourself, must bridge the gulf you made between by
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  Speaker 6: such a search, and travel to be gone up to
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  Speaker 6: the mighty mountain Cough, whereon hinges the world, and round
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  Speaker 6: about whose knees into one ocean, mingle the seven seas,
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  Speaker 6: in whose impenetrable forest folds of light and dark. Simurg
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  Speaker 6: his presence holds not to be reached, if to be
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  Speaker 6: reach'd at all, but by a road the stoutest might
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  Speaker 6: appall of travel, not of days or months, but years
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  Speaker 6: life long, perhaps of dangers, doubts, and fears as yet
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  Speaker 6: unheard of, sweat of blood and brain, interminable, often all
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  Speaker 6: in vain, and if successful, nor return again. A road
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  Speaker 6: whose very preparations scared the traveler, who yet must be prepared, who,
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  Speaker 6: then this travel to result must bring, needs both a
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  Speaker 6: lion's heart beneath the wing, and even more a spirit
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  Speaker 6: purified of worldly passions, malice, lust and pride, yea even
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  Speaker 6: of worldly wisdom, which grows dim and dark the nearer
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  Speaker 6: it approaches him, who, to the spirit's eye alone reveal'd
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  Speaker 6: by sacrifice of wisdom self unseal'd, without which none who
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  Speaker 6: reached the place could bear to look upon the glory
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  Speaker 6: dwelling there. One night, from out the swarming city gate
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  Speaker 6: stepp't wholly Bajazid to meditate alone amid the breathing fields
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  Speaker 6: that lay in solitary silence, leagues away beneath the moon
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  Speaker 6: and stars as bright as day, and the saint, wondering
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  Speaker 6: such a temple were, and so lit up and scarce,
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  Speaker 6: one worshiper, A voice from heaven amid the stillness, said,
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  Speaker 6: the Royal road is not for all to tread, nor
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  Speaker 6: is the Royal Palace for the rout who, even if
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  Speaker 6: they reach it, are shut out. The blaze that from
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  Speaker 6: my harm window breaks with fright, the rabble of the
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  Speaker 6: roadside takes, and even of those that at my portal
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  Speaker 6: din thousands may knock for one that enters in. Thus
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  Speaker 6: spoke the Tajidar, and the winged crowd that underneath his
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  Speaker 6: word in silence bowed, clapped acclamation, and their hearts and
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  Speaker 6: eyes were kindled by the firebrand of the wise. They
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  Speaker 6: felt the degradation, they believed the word that told them
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  Speaker 6: how to be retrieved, and in that glorious consummation one
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  Speaker 6: forgot the cost at which it must be done. They
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  Speaker 6: only longed to follow. They would go whither he led,
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  Speaker 6: through flood or fire or snow, So cried the multitude.
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  Speaker 6: But some there were who listened with a cold, disainful air,
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  Speaker 6: content with what they were, or grudging cost of time
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  Speaker 6: or travel that might all be lost. These, one by
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  Speaker 6: one came forward and preferred unwise objection, which the wiser
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  Speaker 6: word shot with direct reproof, or subtly round with argument
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  Speaker 6: and allegory wound. The pheasant first would know by what
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  Speaker 6: pretense the Tajidar to that pre eminence was raised a bird,
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  Speaker 6: But for his lowfully crest, and such the pheasant had,
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  Speaker 6: like all the rest, who answer'd by no virtue of
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  Speaker 6: my own. Sully Man chose me but by his alone,
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  Speaker 6: not by the gold and silver of my size made mine,
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  Speaker 6: but the free largesse of his eyes. Behold, the grace
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  Speaker 6: of Allah comes and goes, as to itself is good,
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  Speaker 6: and no one knows which way it turns in that
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  Speaker 6: mysterious court. Not he most finds who furtheres travels for it.
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  Speaker 6: For one may crawl upon his knees life long, and
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  Speaker 6: yet may never reach, or all go wrong. Another just
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  Speaker 6: arriving at the place he toil'd for, and the door
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  Speaker 6: shut in his face, whereas another, scarcely gone astride and
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  Speaker 6: suddenly behold he is inside. But though the runner when
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  Speaker 6: not he that stands no thorn, will turn to roses
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  Speaker 6: in his hands. Each one must do his best, and
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  Speaker 6: all endure and all endeavor, hoping, but not sure. Heaven
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  Speaker 6: is its own umpire, its bidding do, and thou, perchance
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  Speaker 6: shalt be Solayman's too. One day shah Mahmood, riding with
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  Speaker 6: the wind a hunting, left his retinue behind, and coming
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  Speaker 6: to a river whose swift course doubled back. Game, and
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  Speaker 6: dog and man and horse beheld upon the shore a
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  Speaker 6: little lad a fishing, very poor and tatter clad. He was,
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  Speaker 6: and weeping as his heart would break. So the great Sultan,
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  Speaker 6: for good humor's sake, pulled in his horse a moment
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  Speaker 6: and drew nigh, and after making his Salaam, asked why
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  Speaker 6: he wept weeping? The Sultan said, so sore, as he
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  Speaker 6: had never seen one weep before. The boy looked up,
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  Speaker 6: and oh, a mere, he said. Seven of us are
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  Speaker 6: at home, and father dead, and mother left with scarce
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  Speaker 6: a bit of bread. And now since sunrise have I
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  Speaker 6: fished and sea caught nothing for our supper. Woe is me.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: The Sultan lighted from his horse behold, said he good
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: fortune will not be controlled. And since to day yours
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: seems to turn from you, suppose we try for once
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: what mine will do, and we will share alike in
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: all I win. So the Shah took and flung his
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: fortune in the net, which, cast by the Great Mahmud's hand,
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: a hundred glittering fishes brought to land. The lad looked
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: up in wonder. Mahmud smiled and vaulted into saddle. But
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: the child ran after nay a meir, but half the
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: hole is yours by bargain. Nay to day take all.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: The Sultan cried and shook his bridle free, But mind
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: tomorrow all belongs to me, and so rode off. Next
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: morning at Divan, the Sultan's mind, upon his bargain ran, and,
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: being somewhat in a mind for sport, sent for the
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: lad who carried up to court, and marching into royalty's
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  Speaker 6: full blaze with such a catch of fish as yesterday's.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: The Sultan called and set him by his side, and
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: asked him what luck. The boy replied, this is the
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: luck that follows every caste since o'erminet. The Sultan's shadow passed.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: Then came the nightingale, from such a draft of ecstasy
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: that from the rose he quaffed, reeling as drunk and
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: ever did distill in exquisite divisions from his bill to
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: inflame the hearts of men. And thus sang he to
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: me alone alone is given the key of love, of
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: whose whole mystery possessed. When I reveal a little to
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: the rest, forthwith creation, listening forsakes the reins of reason,
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: and my frenzy takes yea whosoever wants his quaint this
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: whine he leaves unlisten David's song for mine in vain
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  Speaker 6: do men for my divisions strive and die themselves, making
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  Speaker 6: dead lutes alive. I hang the stars with meshes for
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: men's souls. The garden underneath my music rolls the long
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: long morns that mourn the rose away. I sit in
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: silence and un anguish pray. But the first air which
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: the new year shall breathe up to my bows of
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: message from beneath that in her green harem, my bride unveils.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: My throat bursts silence, and her advent hails who, in
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: her crimson volume registers the notes of him whose life
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: is lost on hers. The rose I love and worship
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: now is here, if dying, yet reviving year by year.
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: But that you tell of all my life, why waste
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: in vainly search? Or if found not taste so with
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: division infinite and trill on would the nightingale have warbled
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: still and all the world have listen'd but a note
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: of sterner import check'd the love sick throat o watering
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: with thy melodious tears Love's garden, And who dost indeed
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: the ears of men, with thy mylodious fingers mold as
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: David's finger iron did of old. Why not, like David,
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: dedicate thy dower of song to something better than a
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: flower empress, indeed of beauty, so they say, but one
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: whose empire hardly lasts a day by insurrection of this
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: morning's breath that made her hurried to decay and death.
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: And while she lasts, contented to be seen and worshiped
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: for the garden's only queen, leaving the singing on thye,
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: I bow forlorn, or if she smile on thee perhaps
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: in scorn, like that fond dervish waiting in the throng
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: when some world famous beauty went along, who, smiling at
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: the antic as she passed forthwith staff, bead and scrip
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: away he cast and, groveling in the cannel, took to
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: wine before her door, among the dogs and swine, which
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: when she often went unheeding by. But one day, quite
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: as heedless, asked him why he told of that one smile,
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: which all the rest passing had kindled hope within his breast.
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: Again she smiled, and said, O self beguiled, poor wretch
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: at whom and not on whom I smiled. Then came
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: the subtle parrot, in a coat greener than greensward, and
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: about his throat a collaran of subsulfurious gold, and in
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: his beak a sugar plum. He troll'd, and all his words,
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: with luscious lisping ran And to this tune, O cruel cage,
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: and man more iron still, who did confine me there?
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: Who else with him whose livery I wear ere this
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: to his eternal fount, had been and drunk what should
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: have kept me ever green? But now I know the place,
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: and I am free to go, and all the wise
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: will follow me some. And upon the nightingale one eye
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: he leered for nothing but the blossom sigh. But I
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: am for the luscious pulp that grows where, and for
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: which the blossom only blows, and which, so long as
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: the green tree provides, What better grows along calf's dreary sides.
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: And what more needful prophet there than he who gives
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: me life to nip it from the tree. To whom
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: the tajidar O thou whose best in the green leaf
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: of paradise is dressed, but whose neck kindles with a
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: lower fire, Oh, slip the collar off of base desire,
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: and stand apparelled in heaven, wolf and tire. This life
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: that hangs so sweet about your lips, but spite of
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: all your keys are slips and slips. What is it
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: but itself, the coarser rind of the true life within side,
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: and behind which he shall never never reach, unto till
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: the gross shell or carcass he break through. For what
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: said he, that dying hermit, whom your prophet came to,
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: trailing through the gloom his emerald's vest, and tempted, come
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: with me and live? The hermit answered, not with thee
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: two worlds there are, and this was thy design, and
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: thou hast got it. But the next is mine. Whose
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: fount is this life's death? And to whose side? Even
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: now I find my way without a guide. Then, like
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: a sultan, glittering in all rays of jewelry and decked
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: with his own blaze, the glorious peacock swept into the ring,
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: and turning slowly, that the glorious thing might fill all
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: eyes with wonder. Thus said he behold the secret artist,
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: making me with no one color of the sky's bedecked,
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: but from its angel's feather did select to make mine
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: with all the gabriel of all the birds, though from
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: my place I fell in Eden, when acquaintance I did
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: make in those blessed days with that seven headed snake,
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: and thence with him my perfect beauty, marred with these
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: ill feet, was thrust out and debarred. Little I care
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: for worldly fruit or flower. Would you restore me to
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: lost Eden's bower? But first my beauty, making all complete
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: with reparation for these ugly feet? Were it twas answered
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: only to return to that lost Eden better far to
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: burn in self abasement, up thy plumid pride, and even
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: with lamor feet to creep inside. But all mistake in
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: you and all like you that long for that lost Eden,
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: as the true fair as it was still nothing but
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: the shade and out court of the Majesty that made
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: that which I point you toward, and which the King
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: I tell you of broods over with his wing, with
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: no deciduous leaf, but with the rose of spiritual beauties,
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: smells and glows, no plot of earthly pleasance, but the
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: whole true garden of the universal soul. For so creations,
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: Master Jewel fell from that same Eden, loving which too
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: well the work before the artist did prefer, and in
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: the garden lost the gardener. Wherefore, one day about the
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: garden went a voice that found him in his false content,
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: and like a bitter sorcer of the North, shriveled the
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: garden up and drove him forth into the wilderness. And
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: so the eye of Eden closed on him till by
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: and by then from a ruin, where concealed he lay,
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: watching his buried gold, and hating day, hooted the owl.
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: I tell you my delight is in the ruin and
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: the dead of night, where I was born, and where
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: I loved to wan all my life long, sitting on
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: some cold stone, away from all your roistering companies, in
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: some dark corner, where a treasure lies, that buried by
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: some miser in the dark, speaks up to me at
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: midnight like a spark, and over it like a talisman,
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: I brood, companion of the serpent and the toad. What
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: need of other sovereigns, Having found and keeping as in
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: prison underground, one before whom all other kings bow down,
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: and with his glittering heel their foreheads crown. He that
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: a miser lives and miser dies at the last day,
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: what figure shall he rise a fellow all his life
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: lived hoarding gold, and dying hoarded left it. And behold
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: one night his son saw peering through the house a
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: man with yet the semblance of a mouse, watching a
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: crevice in the wall, and cried, my father. Yes, the
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: mussulman replied, thy father, But why watching thus for fear
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: lest any smell my treasure buried here? But wherefore, sir
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: so meta mousified, Because my son, such is the true
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: outside of the inner soul by which I lived and died, Aye,
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: said the partridge with his foot and bill crimson with
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: raking rubies from the hill and clattering his spurs, wherewith
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: the ground eye stab said he for rubies that, when
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: found I swallow, which, as soon as swallowed, turned to sparks, which,
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: though my beak and eyes do burn, gold, as you say,
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: is but dull metal, dead and hanging on the hoarder's
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: soul like lead. But rubies that have blood within and
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: grown and nourished in the mountain heart of stone, burn
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: with an inward light, which they inspire and make their
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: owners lords of their desire, to whom the tajidar as
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: idly sold to the quick pebble, as the drowsy gold,
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: as dead when sleeping in their mountain mine, as dangerous
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: to him who makes them shine, slavish indeed to do
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: their lord's commands, and slavelike aptist to escape his hands
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: and serve a second master like the first, and working
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: all their wonders for the worst. Never was jewel after
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: or before like that Slayman for a signet war, whereby
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: one ruby, weighing scarce a grain did sea and land,
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: and all therein constrain. Yea, even the winds of Heaven
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: made the fierce East bear his league wide pavilion like
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: a beast, whither he would YEA. The good Angel held
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: his subjects, and the lower fiend compelled till looking round
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: about him in his pride, he overtaxed the fountain that supplied,
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: praying that after him no son of Clay should ever
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: touch his glory. And one day, Almighty God, his jewel
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: stole away and gave it to the div who, with
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: the ring, wore also the resemblance of the king, And
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: so for forty days played such a game as blots
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: Layman's forty years with shame. Then the Shah Falcon tossing
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: up his head, blink hooded as it was. Behold, he said,
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: I am the chosen comrade of the king, and perch
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: upon the fist that wears the ring, Born, bred and
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: nourished in the royal court. I take the royal name
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: and make the sport. And if strict discipline I undergo,
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: and half my life am blinded. Be it so because
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: the Shah's companion ill may brook on aught save royal
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: company to look. And why am I to leave my
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: king and fare with all these rabble wings? I know
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: not where, oh blind Indeed, the answer was and dark
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: to any but a vulgar, mortal mark and drunk with
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: pride of vassalage. To those whose humor, like their kingdom,
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: comes and goes all mutability, who one day pleased to give,
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: and next day what they gave not seize, like to
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: the fire, a dangerous friend at best, which who keeps
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: farthest from does wiseliest. A certain Shah there was, and
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: days foregone, who had a lovely slave he doted on
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: and cherish'd as the apple of his eye, clad, gloriously fed,
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: sumptuously set high, and never was at ease, were he
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: not by who yet for all this sunshine, day by
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: day was seen to wither like a flower away, which,
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: when observing one without the veil of favor, asked the favorite,
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: why so pale and sad? Thus, sadly answered the poor thing.
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: No sun that rises sets until the king, whose archery
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: is famous among men, aims at an apple on my head.
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: And when the stricken apple splits, and those who stand
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: around cry lo the Shah's unerring hand, Then he, too, laughing,
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: asks me, why so pale and sorrowsome as could the
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: Sultan fail, who such a master of the bow, confessed
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: and aiming by the head that he loves best. Then
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: on a sudden swooped the phoenix down, as though he
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: wore as well as gave the crown, and cried, I
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: care not I to wait on kings whose crowns are
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: but the shadow of my wings. I was the answer,
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: And pray how hast sped on which it lighted many
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: a mortal head, A certain sultan, dying his vizier in
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: dream beheld him, and in mortal fear began a mighty
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: Shah of shahs, thrice blest but loud. The vision shrieked
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: and struck its breast and stappy, not with empty title,
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: cried one. Only Shah there is, and none beside who
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: from his throne above for certain ends, or while some
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: spangle of his glory lends to men on earth, but
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: calling in again exacts a strict accounting of every grain. Sultan,
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: I lived and held the world in scorn. Oh better
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: had I gleaned the field of corn? Oh better had
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: I been a beggar born and from my throne and
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: crown down in the dust my living head had laid
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: where dead I must oh withered? Withered? Either be the
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: wing whose overcasting shadow made me king. Then from a
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: pond where all day long he kept waddled the dapper
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: duck demure, adept at infinite ablution and precise in keeping
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: off his raiment, clean and nice and sure of all
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: the race of birds, said he none for religious purity
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: like me, beyond what strictest rituals prescribed. Methinks, I am
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: the saint of all our tribe, to whom, by miracle
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: the water that I wash in also makes my praying
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: matt to whom more angrily than all, replied the leader,
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: lashing that religious pride that under ritual obedience to outer
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: law with inner might dispense, For there is all the
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: feather to be seen. Could one see through? The moor
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: was not so clean, But he that made both mow
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: and feather too, would take account of seeing through and through. Ushah,
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: returning to his capital, his subjects dressed it forth in festival,
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: thronging with acclamation, square and street, and kneeling flung before
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: his horse's feet jewel and gold, all which with scarce
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: an eye the Sultan superciliously rode by till coming to
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: the public prison. They who dwelt within those grisly walls
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: by way of welcome, having neither pearl nor gold, over
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: the wall, chopped head and carcass, rolled, some almost parched
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: to mummery with the sun, some wet with execution that
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: day done, at which grim compliment. At last the Shah
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: drew bridle and amid a wild hurrah of savage recognition,
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: smiling through silver and gold among the wretched crew, and
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: so rode forward wereat of his train, one wondering that
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: while others sued in vain with costly gifts, which carelessly
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: he passed, but smiled at ghastly welcome. Like the last,
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: the shaw made answer all that pearl and gold of
• 42:10
  Speaker 6: ostentatious welcome, only told a little with great clamor from
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: the store of hypocrites who kept at home much more.
• 42:18
  Speaker 6: But when those severed heads and trunks I saw, save
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: by strict execution of my law, they had not parted company,
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: not one, but told my will, not talked, but done.
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: Then from a wood was heard unseen to coo the
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: ring dove, use if use, if use if you for
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: thus her sorrow broke her note in twain, and just
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: were broken. Took it up again suff use of use,
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: usef but one note, which still repeating, she made hoarse
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: her throat till checked O you, who, with your idle size,
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: block up the road of better enterprise, sham sorrow all
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: or bad as sham, if true, when once the better
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: thing is come to do, beware lest wailing. Thus you
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: meet his doom, who all too long, his darling wept
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: from whom you draw the very name you hold so dear,
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: and which the world is somewhat tired to hear. When
• 43:21
  Speaker 6: yusef from his father's home was torn, the patriarch's heart
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: was utterly forlorn, and like a pipe with but one stop,
• 43:29
  Speaker 6: his tongue with nothing but the name of yusef rung.
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: Then down from Heaven's branches flew the bird of heaven
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: and said, God, wearies of that word. Hast thou nought
• 43:41
  Speaker 6: else to do and else to say? So Jacob's lips
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: were sealed from that day. But one night, in a
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: vision far away his darling and some alien field, he
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: saw binding the sheaf, and what between the awe of
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: God's displeasure and the bitter pass of passionate affection, sighed
• 44:02
  Speaker 6: alas and stopped. But with the morning sword of flame
• 44:06
  Speaker 6: that opened his eyes, the sterner angels came, for the
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: forbidden word not artered by thy lips, was yet sequestered
• 44:15
  Speaker 6: in that sigh, and the right passion, whose excess was
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: wrong blinded the ancient eyes that wept too long. And
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: after these came others, arguing, inquiring, and excusing some one
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: thing and some another, endless to repeat, but in the
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: main sloth, folly, or deceit. Their souls were to the
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: vulgar figure, cast of earthly victual, not of heavenly fast.
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: At last one smaller bird, of a rare kind, of pure,
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: modest plume and unpresumptuous mind, whispered, o Tagidar, We know
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: indeed how thou best knowest and wouldst help our need.
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: For thou art wise and holy, and hast been behind
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: the veil, and there the presence seen. But we are
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: weak and vain, with little care beyond our yearly nests
• 45:10
  Speaker 6: and daily fair How should we reach the mountain? And
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: if there, how get so great a prince to hear
• 45:17
  Speaker 6: our prayer? For there, you say, dwells the simurg alone
• 45:22
  Speaker 6: in glory, like sir layman on his throne, and we
• 45:26
  Speaker 6: but pismeres at his feet. Can he such puny creatures
• 45:30
  Speaker 6: stoop to hear or see, or hearing seeing own us on,
• 45:35
  Speaker 6: akin as he to folly, woe and death and sin,
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: to whom the Tajidar, whose voice for those bewildered ones
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: to full compassion rose, oh lost so long in exile,
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: You disclaim the very fount of being whence you came,
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: cannot be parted from, and will or no, whether for
• 45:56
  Speaker 6: good or evil, must reflow. For look the shadows into
• 46:01
  Speaker 6: which the light of His pure essence, down by infinite gradation, dwindles,
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: which at random play through space in shape and definite,
• 46:11
  Speaker 6: one ray of His creative will into defined creation quickens
• 46:16
  Speaker 6: we that swim the wind, and they the flood below,
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  Speaker 6: And man and beast that walk between from lion to
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  Speaker 6: the least pismere that creeps along. So layman's wall, yea
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: that in which they swim, fly, walk, and crawl. However,
• 46:32
  Speaker 6: near the fountain light are far remov'd. Yet his uphantic
• 46:36
  Speaker 6: shadows are dead matter's self. But the dark residue, exterminating
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: glory dwindles too, a mystery, too fearful in the crowd
• 46:46
  Speaker 6: to utter scarcely to thyself aloud. But when in solitary
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: watch and prayer considered and religiously beware, lest thou the
• 46:55
  Speaker 6: copy with the type confound, and deity with deity in
• 47:01
  Speaker 6: for as pure water into purer wine, incorporating, shall itself
• 47:05
  Speaker 6: relne While the dull drug lies half resolved below with
• 47:09
  Speaker 6: him and with his shadow. Is it so the baser
• 47:13
  Speaker 6: forms to whatsoever change subject still vary through their lower range,
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: to which the higher even shall decay, that, letting ooze
• 47:23
  Speaker 6: their better part away, for things of sense and matter
• 47:27
  Speaker 6: in the end shall merge into the clay to which
• 47:29
  Speaker 6: they tend, Unlike to him who, straining through the bond
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: of outward being for a life beyond, while the gross
• 47:39
  Speaker 6: wordling to his center, clings that draws him deeper in
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: exulting springs to merge him in the central soul of things.
• 47:49
  Speaker 6: And shall not he pass home with others zest who
• 47:52
  Speaker 6: with full knowledge yearns for such a rest than he who,
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: with his better self at strife, drags on the weary eggs.
• 48:00
  Speaker 6: Thou called this life one like a child with outstretched
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: arms and face upturned, anticipates his sire's embrace, the other
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  Speaker 6: crouching like a guilty slave, till flogged to punishment across
• 48:15
  Speaker 6: the grave, and knowing that his glory ill can bear
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: thee unpurged eye, do thou thy breast prepare and the
• 48:23
  Speaker 6: mysterious mirror he set there to temper his reflected image
• 48:27
  Speaker 6: in clear of distortion, doubleness and sin, and in thy
• 48:32
  Speaker 6: conscience understanding this, the double only seems, but the one
• 48:37
  Speaker 6: is thyself to self annihilation. Give that this false too,
• 48:43
  Speaker 6: in that true one may live. For this I say,
• 48:47
  Speaker 6: if looking in thy heart, thou for self whole mistake
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: thy shadow part, that shadow part indeed into the sun
• 48:55
  Speaker 6: shall melt. But in that mirror, if with purged eyes
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: thy shaddadow, thou, foreshadow recognize, Then shalt thou back into
• 49:04
  Speaker 6: thy center, fall a conscious ray of that eternal all.
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  Speaker 4: He ceased.
• 49:11
  Speaker 6: And for a while amazement quelled the host, and in
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: the chain of silence held a mystery so awful, who
• 49:19
  Speaker 6: would dare so glorious? Who would not wish to share?
• 49:23
  Speaker 6: So silence brooded on the feathered folk till here and
• 49:26
  Speaker 6: there a timid murmur broke from some too poor in
• 49:30
  Speaker 6: honest confidence, and then from others of too much pretense,
• 49:35
  Speaker 6: whom both as each unduly hoped or feared, the Tajidar
• 49:39
  Speaker 6: in answer, checked or cheered. Some said their hearts were good,
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: indeed to go the way he pointed out, but they
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: were slow of comprehension and scarce understood their present evil
• 49:51
  Speaker 6: or the promised good. And so, though willing to do
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: all they could, must not they fall short or go
• 49:58
  Speaker 6: wholly wrong on such mysterious errant and so long whom
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: the wise leader bid, But do their best in hope
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: and faith, and leave to him the rest. For he
• 50:10
  Speaker 6: who fix'd the race and knew its length and danger,
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: also knew the runner's strength. Shah Mahmud absent on an
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: enterprise aias the very darling of his eyes at home
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: under an evil eye fell sick. Then cried the Sultan
• 50:29
  Speaker 6: to a soldier, quick to horse to horse, without a
• 50:32
  Speaker 6: moment's stay, the shortest road, with all the speed you may,
• 50:37
  Speaker 6: or by the Lord your head shall pay for it.
• 50:40
  Speaker 6: Off went the soldier, plying, spur and bit over the
• 50:44
  Speaker 6: sandy desert, over green valley and mountain and the stream between,
• 50:49
  Speaker 6: without a moment's stop for rest or bait up to
• 50:53
  Speaker 6: the city, to this palace gate, up to the presence
• 50:56
  Speaker 6: chamber at a stride, and lo the Sultan at his
• 51:00
  Speaker 6: darling side. Then thought the soldier, I have done my best,
• 51:05
  Speaker 6: and yet shall die for it. The Sultan guessed his
• 51:09
  Speaker 6: thought and smiled, Indeed, your best you did, the nearest
• 51:13
  Speaker 6: road you knew, and well you rid And if I
• 51:17
  Speaker 6: knew as shorter, My excess of knowledge does but justify
• 51:20
  Speaker 6: thy less. So then, with drooping crest and feather came
• 51:25
  Speaker 6: others bowed down with penitence and shame. They longed, indeed
• 51:30
  Speaker 6: to go, but how begin meshed and entangled as they
• 51:34
  Speaker 6: were in sin, which oftentimes repentance have passed wrong as
• 51:39
  Speaker 6: often broken had, but knit more strong whom the wise
• 51:43
  Speaker 6: leader bid be of good cheer and conscious of the fault,
• 51:47
  Speaker 6: dismiss the fear, not at the very entrance of the fray,
• 51:50
  Speaker 6: their weapon, even if broken, fling away, since mercy on
• 51:55
  Speaker 6: the broken branch anew would blossom, were but each repentance true.
• 52:01
  Speaker 6: For did not God this prophet take to task seven
• 52:05
  Speaker 6: times of thee did kroun pardon ask which hadst thou
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  Speaker 6: been like me his maker yea, but present at the
• 52:13
  Speaker 6: kneading of the clay, with those twain elements of hell
• 52:17
  Speaker 6: and heaven, one prayer had won what thou deniest to seven.
• 52:22
  Speaker 6: For like a child sent with a fluttering light to
• 52:25
  Speaker 6: feel his way along augusty night, Man walks the world again,
• 52:30
  Speaker 6: and yet again the lamp shall be, by fits of
• 52:33
  Speaker 6: passion slain, And shall not he who send him from
• 52:37
  Speaker 6: the door relight the lamp once more? And yet once more,
• 52:41
  Speaker 6: when the rebellious host from death shall wake black with
• 52:45
  Speaker 6: despair of judgment, God shall take ages of holy merit
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: from the count of angels to make up Man's short amount,
• 52:54
  Speaker 6: and bid the murmuring angel gladly spare of that which,
• 52:58
  Speaker 6: undiminishing his share of blais shall rescue thousands from the
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: cost of bankruptcy within the prison lost. Another story told
• 53:07
  Speaker 6: how in the scale good will beyond mere knowledge would prevail.
• 53:12
  Speaker 6: In Paradise, the angel Gabriel heard the lips of Allah
• 53:16
  Speaker 6: trembling with the word of perfect acceptation. And he thought,
• 53:21
  Speaker 6: some perfect faith, some perfect answer wrought? But whose and
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: wherewith slipping from the crypt of Sidra through the angel
• 53:31
  Speaker 6: ranks has slipped watching what lip yet trembled with his
• 53:35
  Speaker 6: shot that so had hit the mark, but found it not. Then,
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: in a glance to Earth, he threaded through mosque, palace,
• 53:43
  Speaker 6: cell and cottage of the true belief in vain. So
• 53:47
  Speaker 6: back to Heaven he went, and Allah's lips still trembling
• 53:50
  Speaker 6: with as scent. Then the tenacious Angel once again threaded
• 53:55
  Speaker 6: the ranks of heaven and Earth in vain, till once
• 53:58
  Speaker 6: again returned to Paradise. There, looking into God's the angel's
• 54:03
  Speaker 6: eyes beheld the prayer that brought that benison, rising like
• 54:08
  Speaker 6: incense from the lips of one who, to an idle,
• 54:12
  Speaker 6: bowed as best he knew under that false God, worshiping
• 54:16
  Speaker 6: the true. And then came others whom the summons found
• 54:21
  Speaker 6: not wholly sick indeed, but far from sound, whose light
• 54:25
  Speaker 6: and constant soul alternate, flew from saint to sinner and
• 54:30
  Speaker 6: to both untrue, who, like a niggard tailor, tried to
• 54:34
  Speaker 6: match truth's single garment or a worldly patch, a dangerous
• 54:39
  Speaker 6: game for striving to adjust the hesitating scale of either
• 54:42
  Speaker 6: lust that which had least within it. Upward flew, and
• 54:47
  Speaker 6: still the weight heer to the earth, down drew, and
• 54:50
  Speaker 6: while suspended between rise and full, apt with a shaking
• 54:54
  Speaker 6: hand to forfeit all. There was a queen of Egypt,
• 54:58
  Speaker 6: like the bride of Night, full moon faced and canopus eyed,
• 55:04
  Speaker 6: whom one among the meanest of her crowd, loved, and
• 55:07
  Speaker 6: she knew it, for he loved aloud and sent for him,
• 55:11
  Speaker 6: and said, thou lov'st thy queen. Now therefore thou hast
• 55:15
  Speaker 6: this to choose, between fly for thy life or for
• 55:19
  Speaker 6: this one knight wed thy queen, and with the sunrise
• 55:23
  Speaker 6: lose thy head. He paused, he turned to fly. She
• 55:28
  Speaker 6: struck him dead. For had he truly loved his queen,
• 55:31
  Speaker 6: said she, he would at once have given his life
• 55:34
  Speaker 6: for me and life and wife had carried. But he lied,
• 55:38
  Speaker 6: and loving only life, he justly died and then came
• 55:43
  Speaker 6: one who, having cleared his throat with sanctimonious sweetness in
• 55:47
  Speaker 6: his note, thus lisp'd behold. I languish from the first
• 55:52
  Speaker 6: with passionate and unrequited thirst of love for more than
• 55:56
  Speaker 6: any mortal bird. Therefore have I withdrawn me from the
• 56:00
  Speaker 6: herd to pine in solitude. But thou at last hast
• 56:04
  Speaker 6: drawn a line across the dreary past. And sure I
• 56:07
  Speaker 6: am by foretaste that the wine I longed for and
• 56:10
  Speaker 6: thou tellest of, shall be mine. But he was sternly checked.
• 56:16
  Speaker 6: I tell THEE this such boast is no assurance of
• 56:19
  Speaker 6: such bliss. Thou canst not even fill the sale of
• 56:23
  Speaker 6: prayer unless from him breathe that authentic air that shall
• 56:28
  Speaker 6: lift up the curtain that divides his lover from the
• 56:31
  Speaker 6: harm where he hides. And the fulfillment of thy vows
• 56:34
  Speaker 6: must be not from thy love for him, but his
• 56:38
  Speaker 6: for thee. The third night after Bajazid had died, one
• 56:43
  Speaker 6: saw him in a dream at his bedside and said, thou, Badjazade,
• 56:48
  Speaker 6: tell me, o, Pyr, how fair did there with Munkar
• 56:53
  Speaker 6: and Nakir. And Bajazid replied, when from the grave they
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: met me rising, And if alice slave asked me or
• 57:03
  Speaker 6: collared with the chains of hell, I said not I,
• 57:07
  Speaker 6: but God alone can tell my passion for his service,
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: were but fond ambition, had not he approved the bond,
• 57:16
  Speaker 6: had he not round my neck the collar thrown and
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: told me in the number of his own, and that
• 57:21
  Speaker 6: he only knew what signifies a hundred year of prayer.
• 57:25
  Speaker 6: If none replies, but said another, then shall none the
• 57:30
  Speaker 6: seal of acceptation on his forehead. Feel ere the grave
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: yield them on the other side, where all is settled.
• 57:38
  Speaker 6: But the chief replied enough for us to know that
• 57:41
  Speaker 6: who his meat shall enter, and with unreproved feet, even
• 57:46
  Speaker 6: as he might upon the water's walk the presence room,
• 57:49
  Speaker 6: and in the presence talk with such unbridled license as
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: shall seem to the uninitiated to blaspheme, just as another
• 57:59
  Speaker 6: holy spirit fled the skies above him, burst into a
• 58:02
  Speaker 6: bed of angels, looking down and singing, clear, nightingale, Nightingale,
• 58:08
  Speaker 6: Thy roses here, and yet the door wide open to
• 58:12
  Speaker 6: that bliss. As some hot lover slights a scanty kiss,
• 58:16
  Speaker 6: the saint cried, all I sighed, for come to this,
• 58:20
  Speaker 6: I who life long have struggled Lord, to be not
• 58:24
  Speaker 6: of thy angels, one but one with thee. Others were
• 58:29
  Speaker 6: sure that all he said was true. They were extremely
• 58:32
  Speaker 6: wicked that they knew, and much they longed to go
• 58:36
  Speaker 6: at once. But some, they said, so unexpectedly had come,
• 58:40
  Speaker 6: leaving their nests half built in bad repair, with children
• 58:44
  Speaker 6: in themselves about to pair. Might he not choose a
• 58:49
  Speaker 6: better season, Nay, perhaps a year or two's delay, till
• 58:53
  Speaker 6: all was settled, and themselves more stout and strong to
• 58:56
  Speaker 6: carry their repentance out. And then then the same or
• 59:01
  Speaker 6: like excuse, with hardened heart and resolution loose, with dallying,
• 59:06
  Speaker 6: and old age itself engaged still to shirk that which
• 59:11
  Speaker 6: shirking we have aged, And so with self delusion, till
• 59:15
  Speaker 6: too late death upon all repentance shuts the gate, or
• 59:19
  Speaker 6: some fierce blow compels the way to choose, and forced
• 59:23
  Speaker 6: repentance half its virtues lose. As of an aged Indian king,
• 59:30
  Speaker 6: they tell who, when his empire with his army, fell
• 59:34
  Speaker 6: under young Mahmud's sword of wrath was sent at sunset
• 59:38
  Speaker 6: to the conqueror in his tent, But ere the old
• 59:41
  Speaker 6: king's silver head could reach the ground was lifted up
• 59:45
  Speaker 6: with kindly speech and with so holy mercy reassured that
• 59:50
  Speaker 6: after due persuasion, he abjured his idols, sate upon Mahmud
• 59:54
  Speaker 6: divan and took the name and faith of Mussulman. But
• 59:59
  Speaker 6: when the knightight fell in his tent alone, the poor
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 6: old king was heard to weep and groan and smite
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 6: his bosom, which, when Mahmud knew, he went to him
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 6: and said, lo, if thou rue thy lost dominion, thou
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 6: shalt wear the ring of thrice as large a realm.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 6: But the dark king still wept and ashes on his
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 6: forehead through and cried, not for my kingdom lost thy rue,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 6: but thinking how at the last day will stand the
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 6: prophet with the volume in his hand, and ask of me,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 6: how was it that in thy day of glory thou
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 6: didst turn from me and slay my people? But soon
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 6: as thy infidel before my true believers ar me fell
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 6: like corn before the reaper, Thou didst own his sword?
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 6: Who scoudest me of seed? So sown what profitable harvest
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 6: should be grown. Then, after cheering others who delayed not
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 6: of the road but of themselves, afraid, the Tajidar, the
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 6: troop of those addressed whose uncomplying attitude confessed their souls
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 6: entangled in the old deceit, and hankering still after forbidden meat.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 6: O Ye, who so long feeding on the husk, forego
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 6: the fruit, and doting on the dusk of the false dawn,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 6: are blinded to the true that in the maiden of
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 6: this world, pursue the golden ball, which, driven to the goal,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 6: wins the world's game, but loses your own soul, or
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 6: liked children. After bubbles run that still elude your fingers,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 6: or if one burst into rision at your touch, all
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 6: thin glitter without an empty wind within. So as a
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 6: prosperous worldling on the bed of death, behold, I am,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 6: as one, he said, who all my life long have
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 6: been measuring wind and dying. Now leave even that behind.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 6: This world's a nest in which the cockatrice is warmed
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 6: and hatched of vanity and vice, a false bazaar whose
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 6: wares are all a lie, or never worth the price
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 6: at which you buy a many headed monster, that supplied
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 6: the faster faster is unsatisfied. So as one hearing a
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 6: rich fool one day to God for yet one other
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 6: blessing prey, bid him no longer bounty as heaven tire
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 6: for life to feed, but death to quench the fire.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 6: And what are all the vanities and wiles on which
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 6: the false world decks herself and smiles to draw men
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 6: down into her harlot lap, lusts of the flesh, that
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 6: soul and body sap, and melting soul down into carnal lust,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 6: even that for which tis sacrifice, disgust or lust of
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 6: worldly glory, hollow more than the drum beaten at the
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 6: sultan door, and fluctuating with the breath of man as
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 6: the vain banner flapping in the van and lust of gold,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 6: perhaps of lust the worst, the miscreated, idol, most accursed,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 6: that between man and him who made him stands the felon,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 6: that with suicidal hands he sweats to dig and rescue
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 6: from his grave, and sets it large, to make himself
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 6: its slave, for lo to what worse than oblivion gone
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 6: are some the cozening world most doted on. Pharaoh tried glory,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 6: and his carryats drowned. Karen with all his gold, went underground,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 6: down toppled Nembroth with his airy stare she dead among
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 6: his roses lived, But where and as the world upon
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 6: her victims feeds, so she herself goes down the way.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 6: She leads for all her false allurements, or the threads.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 6: The spider from her entrail spins and spreads for home
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 6: and hunting ground, and by and by darts a due
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 6: signal on the tangled fly seizes, diswings and drains the life,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 6: and leaves the swinging carcass. And forthwith reweaves a web,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 6: each victim, adding to the store of poisoned untrailed to
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 6: entangle more. And so she bloats in glory, till one
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 6: day the master of his house, passing that way, perceives
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 6: and with one flourish of his broom of web and
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 6: fly and spider clears the room behold dropped through the
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 6: gate of mortal birth, the nightly soul alights from heaven
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 6: on earth begins his race, but scarce the saddle feels.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 6: When a foul imp up from the distance, steals and
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 6: double as he will about his heels closer and ever closer,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 6: circling creeps than half invited on the saddle, leaps clings
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 6: round the rider, and once there in vain the strongest
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 6: strives to thrust him off again in childhood just peeps
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 6: up the blade of ill, that youth to lust rears
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 6: fury and self will, And as man cools to sensual desire,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 6: ambition catches with as fierce a fire, until old age
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 6: sends him with one last lust of gold, to keep
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 6: it where he found in dust. Life at both ends,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 6: so feeble and constrained, how should that imp of sin
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 6: be slain or chained? And woe to him who feeds
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 6: the hateful beast, that of his feeder makes an after feast.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 6: We know the wolf, by stratagem and force can hunt
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 6: the tiger down, But what resource against the plague we
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 6: heedless hat within then growing pamper into full blown sin
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 6: with the soul's self, even as the wise man said,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 6: feeding the very devil with God's own bread, until the
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 6: Lord his largess misapplied resent and drive us wholly from
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 6: his side. For should the greyhound, whom a sultan fed
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 6: and by a jeweled string a hunting lead, turn by
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 6: the way to gnaw some nasty thing and snarl at
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 6: him who twitched the silken string, would not his lord
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 6: seem weary of dispute and turn adrift the incorrigible brute. Nay,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 6: would one follow and without a chain, the only master
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 6: truly worth the pain one must beware, lest growing over
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 6: fond of even life's most consecrated bond, we clog our
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 6: footsteps to the world beyond, like that old Arab chieftain
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 6: who confessed his soul by two two darling things possessed
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 6: that only son of his, and that one colt descended
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 6: from the prophet's thunderbolt. And I might well bestow the
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 6: last he said on him who brought me word the
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 6: boy was dead. And if so vain the glittering fish,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 6: we get, how doubly vain to dote upon the net
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 6: called life that draws them, patching up this thin tissue
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 6: of breathing out and breathing in, and so by husbanding
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 6: each wretched thread, spring out death's very terror that we dread.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 6: For as the rain drop from the sphere of God
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 6: dropped for a while into the mortal clod, so little
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 6: makes of its allotted time back to its heaven itself
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 6: to resublime that it but serves to saturate its clay
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 6: with bitterness that will not pass away. One day, the prophet,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 6: on a river bank, dipping his lips into the channel,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 6: drank a draft as sweet as honey. Then there came
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 6: one who, an earthen pitcher, from the same drew up
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 6: and drank, and after some short stay under the shadow,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 6: rose and went his way, leaving his earth in bowl
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 6: in which a new thirsting the prophet from the river
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 6: drew and drank from. But the water that came up
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 6: sweet from the stream drank bitter from the cup, at
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 6: which the prophet, in a still surprise for answer, turning
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 6: up to heaven his eyes the vessel's earthen lips. With
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 6: answer ran the clay that I am made of. Once
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 6: was man, who, dying and resolved into the same obliterated
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 6: earth from which he came, was for the potter dug
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 6: and chaste in turn through long vicissitude of bowl and urn.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 6: But howsoever molded, still the pain of that first mortal
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 6: anguish would retain, and cast and recast for a thousand years,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 6: would turn the sweetest water into tears, and after death
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 6: that shirk it as we may will come and with
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 6: it bring its after day for even usef When his
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 6: brotherhood came up from Egypt to buy corn, and stood
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 6: before their brother in his lofty place, nor knew him
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 6: for a veil before his face struck on his mystic cup,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 6: which straightway then wrung out their story to those guilty ten,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 6: not to them only, but to every one. Whatever he
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 6: hath said and thought and done, unburied with the body,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 6: shall fly up and gather into heavens. Inverted cup, which,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 6: stricken by God's fingers, shall tell all the story whereby
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 6: we must stand or fall. And though we walk this
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 6: world as if behind there were no judgment, or the
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 6: judge half blind, beware, for he with whom we have
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 6: to do outsees the link outlives the phoenix too. So
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 6: Sultan Mahmoud, coming face to face with mightier numbers of
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 6: the swarthy race, vowed that if God to him, the
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 6: battle gave God's dervish people all the spoil should have,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 6: and God the battle gave him and the fruit of
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 6: a great conquest. Coming to compute a murmur, through the
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 6: Sultan's army stirred lest ill committed to one hasty word,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 6: the Shah should squander on an idle brood, what should
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 6: be theirs who earned it with their blood, or go
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 6: to fill the coffers of the state. So Mahmed's soul
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 6: began to hesitate till, looking round in doubt from side
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 6: to side, or raving zealot in the press, he spied
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 6: and called, and had him brought before his face, and
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 6: telling bid him arbitrate the case, who having listened, said,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 6: the thing is plain. If thou and God should never
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 6: have again to deal together, rob him of his share.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 6: But if perchance you should, why then beware, So spake
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 6: the Tajidar. But fear and doubt among the birds and
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 6: whispers went about. Great was their need and succor to
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 6: be sought at any risk, at any ransom bought. But
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 6: such a monarch, greater than Mahmoud the Great himself, why
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 6: how should he be wooed to listen to them? They
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 6: two have come all suddenly and unprepared from home, with
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 6: any gold or jewel or rich thing to carry with
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 6: them to so great a king. Poor creatures with the
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 6: old and carnal blind. Spite of all, said so thick
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 6: upon the mind, devising how they might ingratiate access as
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 6: to some earthly potentate, Let him that with his monarch
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 6: would engage bring the gold dust of a long pilgrimage,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 6: the ruby of a bleeding heart, whose sighs breathe more
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 6: than amber incense as it dies, And while in naked beggary,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 6: he stands hope for the robe of honor from his hands.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 6: And as no gift this sovereign receives save the mere
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 6: soul and self of him who gives. So let the
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 6: soul for other non reward look than the presence of
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 6: its sovereign lord. And as his hearers seemed to estimate
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 6: their scale of glory from Mahmud the Great, a simple
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 6: story of the Sultan told how best a subject with
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 6: his Shah made bold. One night, Shah Mahmud, who had
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 6: been of late somewhat distempered with affairs of state, strolled
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 6: through the streets disguised as wont to do, and coming
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 6: to the baths there on the flu saw the poor
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 6: fellow who the furnace fed, sitting beside his water, jug
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 6: and bread. Mahmud stepped in, sat down, unasked, took up
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 6: and tasted of the untasted loaf and cup, saying within
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 6: himself grudge but a bit, and by the Lord your
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 6: head shall pay for it. So, having rested, warmed and
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 6: satisfied himself, without a word on either side, at last
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 6: the wayward Sultan rose to go, and then at last
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 6: his host broke silence. So art satisfied. Well, brother, any
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 6: day or night, remember when you come this way and
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 6: want a bit of provender, why you are welcome? And
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 6: if not, why welcome too. The Sultan was so tickled
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 6: with the whim of this quaint entertainment and of him
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 6: who offered it, that many a night again Stoker and
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 6: Shaw foregathered in that vein till the poor fellow, having
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 6: stood the test of true good fellowship, Mahmood confessed one
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 6: night the Sultan that had been his guest, and in
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 6: requital of the scanty dole, the poor man offered, with
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 6: so large a soul, bid him ask any largest that
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 6: he would a throne if he would have it, so
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 6: he should. The poor man kissed the dust, and all
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 6: said he, I ask is what and where I am
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 6: to be? If I but the Shaw, from time to
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 6: time will come as now and see me in the
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 6: lowly home. His presence makes a pa alice, and my
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 6: own poor flew more royal than another's throne. So said
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 6: the cheery tale. And as they heard again, the heart
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 6: beneath the feathers stirred again forgot the danger in the
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 6: woes of the long travel in its glorious clothes. Here
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 6: truly all was poverty, despair, and miserable banishment. But there
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 6: that more than Mahmoud forward, no more than prayer, who
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 6: would restore them to their ancient place, and round their
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 6: shoulders fling his robe of grace. They clapped their wings
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 6: on fire, to be assayed and prove of what true
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 6: metal they were made. Although defaced and wanting the true
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 6: ring and superscription of their rightful king, the road, the road,
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 6: In countless voices, cried the host, the road, and who
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 6: shall be our guide? And they themselves the Tajidar replied,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 6: yet to make doubly certain that the voice of Heaven,
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 6: according with the people's choice, lots should be drawn, and
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 6: he on whom should light Heaven's hand, they swore to
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 6: follow him outright. This settled, and once more the hubbub
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 6: quell'd once more suspense, the host in silence held, while
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 6: tribe by tribe the birds their fortune drew, and lo
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 6: upon the Tajidar it flew, then rising up again in
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 6: wide and high circumference of wings that mesh'd the sky.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 6: The Tajidar, the Tagidar, they cry, the Tajidar, the Tajidar.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 6: With him was heaven, and they would follow life and limb. Then,
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 6: once more, fluttering to their places, down upon his head
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 6: they set the royal crown as caliph, or their caliph,
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 6: so long lost and captain of his now repentant host,
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 6: And setting him on high and silence, called the Tajidar
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 6: in pulpit throne, install'd his voice into a trumpet tongue
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 6: so clear as all the winged multitude should here raised
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 6: to proclaim the order and array of march, which many
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 6: as it frightened. Yea, the heart of multitudes at outset broke.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 6: Yet for due preparation must bespoke a road indeed that
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 6: never wing before flew, nor foot trod, nor heart imagin'd
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 6: or waterless deserts, waters where no shore valleys comprising cloud
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 6: high mountains. These again their valleys deeper than the seas,
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 6: whose dust all adders and whose vapors fire, Where all
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 6: one's hostile elements conspire to set the soul again herself
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 6: and tear courage, to terror, hope into despair and madness.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 6: Terror's trials to make stray or stop where death to
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 6: wander or delay, Where when half dead, with famine, toil
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 6: and heat, it was death, indeed to rest or drink
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 6: or eat. A road still waxing in self sacrifice as
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 6: it went on, still ringing with the cries and groans
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 6: of those who had not yet prevailed, and bleaching with
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 6: the bones of those who failed, where almost all withstood,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 6: perhaps to earn nothing, and earning never to return. And
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 6: first the veil of search, an endless maze, branching into
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 6: innumerable ways, all courting entrance, but one right. And this
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 6: beset with pitfall, gulf and precipice, where dust is embers air,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 6: a fiery sleet through which, with blinded eyes and bleeding feet,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 6: the pilgrim stumbles with hyaenas howl around and hissing snake
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 6: and deadly ghoul, whose prey he falls, if tempted but
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 6: to droop, or if to wander, famished from the troop.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 6: For fruit that falls to act, dashes in the hand.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 6: Water that reached recedes into the sand. The only word
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 6: is forward, guide in sight after him, swerving neither left
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 6: nor right, thyself for thine own victual by day at night,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 6: thine own self's caravan surrey, till suddenly, perhaps when most
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 6: subdued and desperate, the heart shall be renewed, when deep
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 6: in utter darkness, by one gleam of glory from the
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 6: far remote Harim, that with a scarcely conscious shock of
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 6: change shall light the pilgrim toward the mountain range of knowledge,
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 6: where if stronger and more pure the light and air
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 6: yet harder to endure, and if perhaps the footing more secure,
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 6: harder to keep up with a nimble guide, less from
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 6: lost road than insufficient stride, yet tempted still by false
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 6: show from the track, and by false voices called a
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 6: sigh or back, which echo from the bosom, as if
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 6: won the journey's end, when only just begun, and not
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 6: a mountain peak with toil attained, but shows a top
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 6: yet higher to be gained. Wherefore, still forward forward, Love
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 6: that fired thee first to search by search, is so
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 6: re inspired says that the spirit shall the carnal load
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 6: burn up and double wing thee on the road that
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 6: wert thou knocking at the very door of heaven, Thou
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 6: stiltst would cry for more, more more till loom in
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 6: sight Calf's mountain peak are shroud and mist, uncertain yet
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 6: mountain or cloud, But where the pilgrim begins to hear
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 6: the tide of that one sea in which the seven subside,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 6: and not the seven sees only, but the seven and
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 6: self unfolding spheres of Earth and heaven. Yea, the two
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 6: worlds that now as pictures sleep upon its surface. But
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 6: whence once the deep, from its long slumbers, gins to
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 6: heave and sway under the tempest, shall be swept away,
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 6: with all their phases and phenomena, not senseless matter only,
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 6: but combined with life in all varieties of kind. Yea,
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 6: even the abstract form that space and time, men call,
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 6: and weal and woe, virtue and crime, and all the
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 6: several creeds, like those who fell before them, musclemen and infandel,
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 6: shall from the face of being melt away, canceled, and
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 6: swept as dreams before the day, So hast thou seen
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 6: the astrologer prepare his mystic tables smooth of sand, and
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 6: there inscribe his mystic figures square and trine, circle and pentagram,
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 6: and heavenly sign of stars and planet, from whose set
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 6: and rise, meeting indifference, he profits, sighs, and, having done
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 6: it with his finger clean, obliterates as never they had been.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 6: Such is when reached the table land of One and wonder,
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 6: blazing with so fierce a sun of unity that blinds
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 6: while it reveals the universe that to a point congeals.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 6: So stunned with utter revelation, reels the pilgrim when that
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 6: double seeming house against whose beams he long had chafed
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 6: his brows, crumbles and cracks, before that sea, whose near
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 6: and nearer voice now overwhelms his ear, till blinded, deafened, maddened,
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 6: drunk with doubt of all within himself, as all without nay,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 6: whether without there be or not, or are within that doubts.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 6: And if then, what even so shall the bewildered pilgrim
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 6: seem when nearest waking, deepliest in dream, and darkest next
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 6: to dawn, and lost what had when all is found,
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 6: And just when sine quite mad as one that having
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 6: found the key once more, returns and lo he cannot
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 6: find the door he stumbles over. So the pilgrim stands
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 6: a moment on the threshold, with raised hands, calls to
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 6: the eternal Saki for one draft of light from the
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 6: one essence, which, when quaft he plunges headlong in, and
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 6: all is well with him who never more returns to
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 6: tell such being then the race, and such the goal. Judge,
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 6: if you must not body both and soul with meditation,
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 6: watch and fast prepare. For he that wastes his body
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 6: to a hair shall seize the locks of truth. And
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 6: he that prays good angels in their ministry waylays, and
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 6: the midnightly watcher, in the folds of his own darkness,
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 6: God Almighty holds he would prosper. Here, must from him
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 6: strip the world and take the dervish gown and scrip,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 6: And as he goes, must gather from all sides irrelevant ambitions,
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 6: lusts and prides, glory and gold, and sensual desire, whereof
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 6: to build the fundamental pire of self annihilation, and cast
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 6: in all old relations and regards of kin and country,
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 6: and the pile with this perplexed world, platformed from the
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 6: fables of the next, raise it toward culmination with the
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 6: torn rags and integuments of Creed's outworn, and top the
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 6: giddy summit with the scroll of reason, that in dingy
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 6: smoke shall roll over the true self sacrifice of soul.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 6: For such a prayer was his o God, do thou,
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 6: with all my wealth in the other world endow my friends,
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 6: and with my wealth in this my foes, till bankrupt
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 6: in thy riches. I repose then all the pile completed
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 6: of the pelf of either world, as last thrown on thyself,
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 6: And with the torch of self negation, fire, and ever,
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 6: as the flames rise high and higher, with cries of
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 6: agonizing glory, still all of that self burn up, that
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 6: burn up will, leaving the phoenix that no fire can slay,
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 6: to spring from his own ashes kindled, nay itself, an
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 6: inextinguishable spark of being now beneath earth, ashes dark, transcending these.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 6: At last itself transcends, and with the one eternal essence blends.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 6: The moths had long been exiled from the flame they worship,
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 6: so to solemn counsel came and voted one of them
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 6: by lot be sent to find their idol. One was chosen, went,
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 6: and after a long circuit in sheer gloom, seeing he
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 6: thought the taper in a room, flew back at once
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 6: to say so. But the chief of Mothistan slighted so
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 6: slight belief, and sent another messenger, who flew up to
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 6: the house in at the window, through the flame itself,
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 6: and back the message brings, and yet no sign of
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 6: conflict on his wings. Then went a third, and spurred
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 6: with true desire, Plunging at once into the sacred fire,
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 6: folded his wings within, till he became one color in
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 6: one substance with the flame. He only knew the flame,
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 6: who in it burned, and only he could tell who
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 6: ne'er to tell. Returned after declaring what of this declared
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 6: must be that all who went should be prepared from
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 6: his high station ceased the Tajidar, and lo the terrors that,
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 6: when told Afar seemed but as shadows of a noonday sun.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 6: Now that the talked of thing was to be done,
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 6: lengthening into those of closing day, strode into utter darkness
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 6: and dismay, Like night on the hushed sea of feathers,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 6: lay late, so elate, so terrible a tract, endless or ending,
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 6: never to come back, never to country, family, or friend.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 6: In sooth, no easy bow for birds to bend. Even
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 6: while he spoke, how many wings and crests had slunk
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 6: away to distant woods and nests. Others again, in preparation,
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 6: spent what little strength they had and never went, and others,
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 6: after preparation due when up the veil of that first
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 6: valley drew from whose waste wilderness of darkness blew a sorcer,
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 6: whether edged of flames or snows, that threw from root
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 6: to tip, their feathers froze. Up went a multitude that
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 6: overhead a moment darkened, Then on all sides fled, dwindling.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 6: The world assembled caravan to less than half the number
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 6: that began. Of those who fled not some in dread
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 6: and doubt sat without stirring. Others who set out with
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 6: frothy force, or stupidly resigned before a league, flew off
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 6: or fell behind. And howsoever the more brave and strong
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 6: and courage wing or wisdom pushed along. Yet league by
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 6: league the road was thicklier, spread by the fast falling
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 6: foliage of the dead. Some spent with travel over wave
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 6: and ground, scorched, frozen, dead for drought or drinking, drowned, famished,
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 6: or poisoned with the food. When found by weariness or
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 6: hunger or affright, seduced to stop or stray, become the
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 6: bite of tiger howling round or hissing snake or crocodile
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 6: that eyed them from the lake, or raving mad or
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 6: in despair, self slain, or slaying one another for a
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 6: grain till of the mighty host that fledged the dome
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 6: of heaven and floor of earth. On leaving home, a
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 6: handful reached and scrambled up the knees of calf whose
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 6: feet dip in the seven seas, and of the few
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 6: that up his forest sides of light and darkness where
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 6: the presence hides, but thirty thirty desperate, draggled things, half dead,
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 6: with scarce a feather on their wings, stunned, blinded, deafened,
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 6: with the crash and crays of rock and sea, collapsing
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 6: in a blaze that struck the sun to cinder, fell
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 6: upon the threshold of the everlasting One, with but enough
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 6: life in each to cry on that which all absorbed,
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 6: and suddenly forth flashed a winged harbinger of flame and
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 6: tongue of fire. And who and whence they came? And why?
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 6: Demanded and the Tajidar, for all the threat answered him.
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  Speaker 6: We are those fractions of the sum of being far
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  Speaker 6: dispent and foul disfigured, that once more strike for admission
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  Speaker 6: at the treasury door, to whom the angel answered, know
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  Speaker 6: ye not that he you seek, rex little who or
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  Speaker 6: what of quantity and kind himself? The fount of being
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  Speaker 6: universal needs no count of all the drops o'er flowing
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  Speaker 6: from his urn, in what degree they issue or return? Then,
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  Speaker 6: cried the spokesman. Be it even so, let us but
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  Speaker 6: see the fount from which we flow, and seeing lose
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  Speaker 6: ourselves therein and lo before the word was uttered, or
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  Speaker 6: the tongue of fire replied, or portal open flung, they
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  Speaker 6: were within, They were before the throne, before the majesty
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  Speaker 6: that sat thereon, and wrapped in so insufferable a blaze
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  Speaker 6: of glory as beat down their baffled gin, which downward, drooping,
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  Speaker 6: fell upon a scroll that lightning like flashed back on
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 6: each the whole past half forgotten story of his soul,
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  Speaker 6: like that which Yusuf, in his glory gave his brethren,
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  Speaker 6: as some writing he would have interpreted, and at a
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  Speaker 6: glance behold their own indenture for their brothers sold. And
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  Speaker 6: so with these poor thirty, who abashed in memory, all
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  Speaker 6: laid bare in conscience, last, by full confession and self loathing,
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 6: flung the rags of carnal self that round them clung
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  Speaker 6: and their old selves, self acknowledged and self loathed, and
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 6: in the soul's integrity reclothed. Once more, they ventured from
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  Speaker 6: the dust to raise their eyes up to the throne,
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 6: into the blaze, and in the center of the glory
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 6: there beheld the figure of themselves, as to were transfigured.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 6: Looking to themselves, beheld the figure on the throne and
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  Speaker 6: miracled until their eyes themselves, and that between did hesitate,
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  Speaker 6: Which sear was which seen they that that they another,
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  Speaker 6: yet the same dividual, yet one from whom there came
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  Speaker 6: a voice of awful answer, scarce discerned, from which to aspiration,
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  Speaker 6: whose returned they scarcely knew, as when some men apart
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  Speaker 6: answer aloud the question in his heart. The sun of
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  Speaker 6: my perfection is a glass, wherein from seeing into being
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  Speaker 6: pass all who reflecting as reflected, see themselves in me,
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  Speaker 6: and me in them, not me, but all of me.
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  Speaker 6: That a contracted eye is comprehensive of infinity, nor yet themselves,
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 6: no selves, but of the all fractions from which they
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  Speaker 6: split and wither fall. As water lifted from the deep
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 6: again falls back in individual drops of rain, then melts
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  Speaker 6: into the universal main. All you have been and seen
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  Speaker 6: and done, and thought not you, but I have seen
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  Speaker 6: and been and wrought. I was the sin that from
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  Speaker 6: myself rebell'd, I the remorse that toward myself compell'd. I
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 6: was the tagidar who led the track. I was the
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 6: little briar that pulled you back. Sin and contrition, retribution
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 6: owed and canceled, pilgrim, pilgrimage, and road was but myself
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 6: toward myself and your arrival. But myself at my own door,
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 6: who in your fraction of myself beheld myself within the
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 6: mirror myself hold to see myself in, And each part
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 6: of me that sees himself, though drown'd, shall ever see.
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 6: Come you lost Adams to your center, draw and be
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 6: the eternal mirror that you saw. Rays that have wandered
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 6: into darkness wide return and back into your son subside.
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 6: This was the parliament of birds, And this the story
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  Speaker 6: of the host who went amiss, and of the few
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  Speaker 6: that better upshot found, which being now recounted, lo the
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 6: ground of speech fails under foot. But this to tell
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 6: their road is thine follow and fare thee well. End
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 6: of Farid ud Din Attar's Bird Parliament, as translated by
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 6: Edward Fitzgerald.
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  Speaker 7: Discordance by Conrad Aiken read for LibriVox dot Org by
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  Speaker 7: Philip Gould. Discordance one, Bread and music. Music I heard
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 7: with you was more than music, And bread I broke
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 7: with you was more than bread. Now that I am
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 7: without you, all is desolate. All that was once so
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 7: beautiful is dead. Your hands once touched this table and
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 7: this silver, and I have seen your fingers hold this glass.
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 7: These things do not remember you, beloved, and yet your
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 7: touch upon them will not pass. For it was in
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 7: my heart you moved among them and blessed them with
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 7: your hands and with your eyes. And in my heart
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 7: they will remember always they knew you once, Oh, beautiful
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 7: and wise. Two. My heart has become as hard as
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 7: a city street. The horses trample upon it. It sings
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 7: like iron all day long, and all night long. They beat,
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 7: They ring like the hoofs of time. My heart has
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 7: become as drab as a city park. The grass is
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 7: worn with the feet of shameless lovers. A match is struck,
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 7: there is kissing in the dark. The moon comes pale
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 7: with sleep. My heart is torn with the sound of
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 7: raucous voices. They shout from the slums, from the streets
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 7: from the crowded places, and tunes from the hurdy gurdy
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 7: that coldly rejoices, shoot arrows into my heart. Three dead
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 7: Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket, wrapped and spiced by
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 7: the cunningest of hands. Around her neck they have put
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 7: a golden necklace. Her tatbebs, it is said, are worn
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 7: with sands. Dead Cleopatra was once revered in Egypt, warm eyed,
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 7: she was, this princess of the South. Now she is
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 7: old and dry and faded with black bitumen. They have
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 7: sealed up her mouth. O, sweet clean earth, from whom
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 7: the green blade cometh. When we are dead, my best beloved,
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 7: and eye close well above us, that we may rest forever,
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 7: sending up grass and blossoms to the sky. Four In
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 7: the noisy street, where the sifted sunlight yellows the pallid
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 7: faces sudden, I close my eyes, and on my eyelids
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 7: feel from the far off sea, a cool, faint spray,
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 7: a breath on my cheek from the tumbling breakers and foam,
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 7: the hard sand, shattered gulls in the high wind, whistling
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 7: flashing waters, Smoke from the flashing waters blown on rocks,
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 7: And I know once more, Oh, dearly beloved, that all
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 7: these seas are between us tumult and madness, desolate, save
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 7: for the sea gulls, you on the farther shore, and
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 7: I in this street Conrad Aiken end of poem. This
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 7: recording is in the public domain.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 4: The End of the World by Gordon Bottomly read for
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 4: Librivo Stodorg by Algie Pug. The snow had fallen many
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 4: nights and days. The sky was come upon the earth
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 4: at last, sifting thinly down, as endlessly as though within
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 4: the system of blind planets. Something had been forgot or overdriven.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 4: The dawn now seemed neglected in the gray, where mountains
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 4: were unbuilt and shadowless trees rootlessly paused or hung upon
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 4: the air. There was no wind. But now and then
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 4: a sigh crossed that dry falling dust and rifted it
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 4: through crevices of slate and door and casement. Perhaps the
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 4: new men's time was even past. Outside the first white
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 4: twilights were too void, until a sheep called once as
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 4: to a lamb, and tenderness crept everywhere from it. But
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 4: now the flock must have strayed far away. The lights
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 4: across the valley must be veiled. The smoke lost in
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 4: the grayness or the dusk for more than three days.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 4: Now the snow had thatched that cow house roof where
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 4: it had ever melted, with yellow stains from the beast's
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 4: breath inside. But yet a dog howled there, though not
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 4: quite lately. Some one passed down the valley, swift and
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 4: singing yes, with locks spreaded like a sun of morning.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 4: But if he seemed too tall to be a man,
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 4: it was that men had been so long unseen, or
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 4: shapes loomed larger through a moving snow, and he was gone,
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 4: and food had not been given him. When snow slid
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 4: from an overweighted leaf, shaking the tree, it might have
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 4: been a bird slipping in sleep, or shelter whirring wings.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 4: It never did bird fall out, save once a dead one,
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 4: and in two days the snow had covered it. The
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 4: dog had howled again, or thus it seemed, until a
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 4: lean fox passed and cried no more. All were so
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 4: safe indoors where life went on, glad of the close
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 4: enfolding snow. Oh, glad to be so safe and secret
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 4: at its heart, watching the strangeness of familiar things. They
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 4: knew not what dim hours went on went by. For
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 4: while they slept, the clock stopped, newly wound as the
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 4: cold hardened. Once they watched the road, thinking to be remembered.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 4: Once they doubted if they had kept the sequence of
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 4: the days, because they heard not any sound of bells.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 4: A butterfly that hid until the spring under a ceiling
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 4: shadow dropped was dead. The coldness seemed more nigh. The
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 4: coldness deepened as a sound deepens into silences. It was
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 4: of earth, and came not by the air. The earth
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 4: was cooling and drew down the sky. The air was crumbling.
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 4: There was no more sky. Rails of a broken bed
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 4: charred in the grate, And when he touched the bars,
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 4: he thought the sting came from their heat. He could
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 4: not feel such cold. She said, Oh, do not sleep, heart,
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 4: heart of mine, keep near me. No, no sleep. I
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 4: will not lift his fallen, quiet eyelids, although I know
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 4: he would awaken. Then he closed them thus, But now
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 4: of his own will, he can stay with me while
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 4: I do not lift them. End of poem. This recording
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 4: as in a public domain.
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 8: Epilogue by William Ernest Henley, read for LibriVox dot Org
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 8: by Bruskachuk. These to you now, O more than ever. Now,
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 8: now that the ancient enemy has passed, and we we
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 8: two that are one, have seen a piece of perfect
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 8: life turn to so ravishing a shape of death. The
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 8: arch discomfiter might well have smiled in pity and pride
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 8: even as he bore his lovely and innocent spoil from
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 8: those home kingdoms he left desolate, poor windelstraws on the
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 8: great sullen, roaring pool of time and chance and change.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 8: I know, but they are yours as I am, till
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 8: we attain that end for which we make. We two
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 8: that are one, a little exquisite ghost between us, smiling
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 8: with the serenest eyes seen in this world, and calling, calling,
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 8: still in that clear voice, whose infinite subtleties of sweetness
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 8: thrilling back across the grave, break the poor heart to hear,
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 8: Come dadsy come Mama? How long?
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 7: How long?
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 3: End?
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 8: A poem. This recording is in the public domain.
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 9: Flycatchers by Robert Bridges, red Flibervox dot org by Thomas Peter. Sweet,
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 9: pretty fledglings perched on the rail a row, expectantly happy,
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 9: where ye can watch below Your parents are hunting in
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 9: the meadow grasses all the gay morning to feed you
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 9: with flies. Yer, call me a time sixty summers ago,
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 9: when a young chubby chap I sat just so with
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 9: others on a school form, ranked in a rope, not
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 9: less eager and hungry than you. I trow with intelligences
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 9: agape and eyes aglow, while an authoritative old wise acre
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 9: stood over us, and from a desk fed us with flies.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 9: Dead flies such as littered the library south window, that
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 9: buzzed at the panes until they fell stiff, baked on
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 9: the sill, or rolled up a sleep with the blinds
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 9: at sunrise, or wafered flat in a shrunken folio. A
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 9: dry bipetty was nurtured likewise on skins and skeletons, scale
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 9: from top to toe, with all manner of rubbish and
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 9: all manner of lies. End of poem. This recording is
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 9: in the public domain.
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 8: In the Placid Summer Midnight by William Ernest Henley read
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 8: Forlibrevox dot Org by Bruska Chuck. In the Placid Summer Midnight,
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 8: under the drowsy sky, I seem to hear in the
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 8: stillness the moths go glimmering by one by one from
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 8: the windows. The lights have all been spared. Never a
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  Speaker 8: blind looks conscious. The street is asleep in bed. But
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 8: I come where a live casement laughs, luminous and wide.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 8: I hear the song of a piano break in a
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 8: sparkling tide, and I feel in the waltz that frolics
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 8: and warbles, swift and clear, a sudden sense of shelter
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 8: and friendliness and cheer, a sense of tinkling glasses of
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 8: love and laughter and light. The piano stops, and the
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  Speaker 8: window stares blank out into the night. The blind goes out,
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 8: and I wander to the old unfriendly sea. The lonelier
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 8: for the memory that walks like a ghost with me
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  Speaker 8: end a poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: The Love Song of j Alfred Pruffrac by Tia Saliot,
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 2: read by Linda Olsen Phytak for Librivax dot org si
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 2: grid se Kimi risposta fos abersona kemai tornas almondo quistafia mastadia,
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 2: sen sabius, corse mapercioche gia mid guerstofondo, non tornovivalcom scio
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 2: del vero, senza demadin famia derispondo. Let us go, then
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 2: you and I when the evening is spread out against
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 2: the sky like a patient hethrised upon a table. Let
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 2: us go through certain half deserted streets, the muttering retreats
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 2: of restless nights in one night, cheap hotels and sodast
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 2: restaurants with oyster shells. Streets that follow like a tedious
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 2: argument of insidious intent to lead you to an overwhelming question. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: do not ask what is it? Let us go and
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  Speaker 2: make our visit.
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  Speaker 10: In the room.
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  Speaker 2: The women come and go talking of Michaelangelo. The yellow
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  Speaker 2: fog that rubs its back upon the window panes, the
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  Speaker 2: yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window panes,
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 2: licked its tongue into the corners of the evening, lingered
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 2: upon the pools that stand in drains, Let fall upon
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  Speaker 2: its back. The soot that falls from chimneys slipped by
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  Speaker 2: the terrace, made a sudden leap, and, seeing that it
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 2: was a soft October night, curd once about the house
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 2: and fell asleep. And indeed, there will be time for
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  Speaker 2: the yellow smoke that slides along the street, rubbing its
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  Speaker 2: back upon the window panes. There will be time. There
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 2: will be time to prepare a face to meet the
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  Speaker 2: faces that you meet. There will be time to murder
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 2: and create, and time for all the works and days
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 2: of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate,
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 2: Time for you, and time for me, And time yet
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 2: for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions.
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 2: Before the taking of a toast and tea in the
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 2: room the women come and go talking of Michael Angelo.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 2: And indeed there will be time to wonder. Do I dare?
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 2: And do I dare? Time to turn back and descend
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  Speaker 2: the stair with a bald spot in the middle of
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 2: my hair? They will say, how his hair is growing thin?
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 2: My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
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  Speaker 2: my necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin.
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 2: They will say, but how his arms and legs are thin?
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  Speaker 2: Do I dare disturb the universe in a minute? There
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 2: is time for decisions and previsions which a minute will reverse.
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 2: For I have known them all, already known them, all,
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 2: have known the evenings, mornings afternoons. I have measured out
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 2: my life with coffee spoons. I know the voices dying
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 2: with the dying fall beneath the music from a farther room.
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 2: So how should I presume and I have known the eyes, already,
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  Speaker 2: known them, all the eyes that fix you in a
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  Speaker 2: formulated phrase. And when I am formulated sprawling on a pin,
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 2: when I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, Then
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 2: how should I begin to spit out all the buttons
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 2: of my days and ways? And how should I presume?
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 2: And I have known the arms, already, known them all,
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 2: arms that are braceleted and white and bare. But in
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 2: the lamp light downed with light brown hair? Is it
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 2: perfume from a dress that makes me so digress? Arms
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 2: that lie along a table or wrap about a shawl?
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 2: And should I then presume? And how should I begin?
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 2: Shall I say? I have gone at dusk through narrow
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 2: streets and watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 2: of lonely men in shirts, leaves leaning out of windows.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 2: I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 2: across the floors of silent seas. And the afternoon, the
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  Speaker 2: evening sleeps so peacefully smoothed by long fingers asleep tired
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 2: or it ma lingers stretched on the floor here beside
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 2: you and me? Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
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  Speaker 2: have the strength to force the moment to its crisis.
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 2: But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 2: though I have seen my head groan, slightly bald, brought
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  Speaker 2: in upon a platter, I am no prophet, and here
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 2: is no great matter. I have seen the moment of
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 2: my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal footman
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 2: hold my coat and snigger. And in short, I was afraid.
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 2: And would it have been worth it? After all? After
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 2: the cups, the marmalade, the tea, among the porcelain, among
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 2: some talk of you and me? Would it have been
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  Speaker 2: worth while to have bitten off the matter with a smile,
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 2: to have squeezed the universe into a ball, to roll
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 2: towards some overwhelming question, to say, I am Lazarus, come
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  Speaker 2: from the dead, come back to tell you all. I
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  Speaker 2: shall tell you all. If one settling a pillow by
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  Speaker 2: her head should say, that is not what I meant
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  Speaker 2: at all, That is not it at all? And would
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  Speaker 2: it have been worth it? After all? Would it have
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  Speaker 2: been worth while? After the sunsets and the door yards,
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 2: and the sprinkled streets, after the novels, after the teacups,
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  Speaker 2: after the skirts, the true sail along the floor, And
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  Speaker 2: this and so much more. It is impossible to say
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  Speaker 2: just what I mean. But as if a magic lantern
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  Speaker 2: threw the nerves in patterns on a screen, would it
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  Speaker 2: have been worth while? If one settling a pillow or
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  Speaker 2: throwing off a shawl, and turning toward the window should say,
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  Speaker 2: that is not it at all, That is not what
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  Speaker 2: I meant at all. No, I am not Prince Hamlet,
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 2: nor was meant to be. I am an attendant lord,
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  Speaker 2: one that will do to swell a progress, start a
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  Speaker 2: scene or two, advise the Prince, no doubt, an easy tool, deferential,
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 2: glad to be of use, politic, cautious and meticulous, full
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 2: of high sentence, but a bit o tuse at times,
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  Speaker 2: indeed almost ridiculous, almost at times the fool. I grow old,
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  Speaker 2: I grow old. I shall wear the bottoms of my
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  Speaker 2: trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 2: dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 2: trousers and walk upon the beach. I have heard the
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 2: mermaids singing each to each. I do not think that
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 2: they will sing to me. I have seen them riding
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 2: seaward on the waves, combing the white hair of the
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 2: waves blown back when the wind blows the waters white
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 2: and black. We have lingered in the chambers of the sea,
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 2: by sea girls wreathed with seaweed, red and brown, till
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  Speaker 2: human voices wake us and we drown. End of poem.
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  Speaker 2: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Oft In the Stilly Night by Thomas Moore read for
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  Speaker 1: librivochs dot Org by Winston Tharp. Oft In the Stilly Night, Ere,
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  Speaker 1: Slumber's chain has bound me. Fond memory brings the light
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: of other days around me, the smiles, the tears of
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: boyhood's years, the words of love then spoken, the eyes
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: that shone, now dimmed and gone, the cheerful hearts now broken. Thus,
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 1: in the still air, Slumber's chain has bound me. Sad
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: memory brings the light of other days around me. When
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: I remember all the friends so linked together I've seen
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: around me fall like leaves in wintry weather, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like one who threads alone, some banquet hall deserted, whose
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: lights are fled, whose garland's dead, and all but he departed. Thus,
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: in the Stilly Night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me.
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: Sad memory brings the light of other days around me,
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  Speaker 1: and the poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 10: Old Germany, I have alter van der Vogovite eleven seventy
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  Speaker 10: to twelve thirty read for LibriVox dot org. In many
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  Speaker 10: foreign lands I've been, and knights and ladies there have seen,
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 10: But here alone I find my rest. Old Germany is
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 10: still the best. Some other lands have pleased me well,
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 10: but here tis here I choose to dwell. German men
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  Speaker 10: have virtues rare, and German maids are angels, fair and
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  Speaker 10: of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 3: O me O Life by Walt Whitman, read for LibriVox
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  Speaker 3: dot org by Phil Champh. O me O Life, of
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  Speaker 3: the questions of these recurring, of the endless trains, of
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  Speaker 3: the faithless, of cities, filled with the foolish of myself,
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 3: forever reproaching myself, For who more foolish than I, and
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 3: who more faithless? Of eyes that vainly crave the light
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 3: of the objects, mean of the struggle ever renewed, of
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 3: the poor results of all of the plodding and sordid
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 3: crowds I see around me, of the empty and useless
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 3: years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined the
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  Speaker 3: question O me so sad recurring What good amid these
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 3: o me o life? Answer? That you are here, that
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  Speaker 3: life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on,
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 3: and you will contribute a verse and a poem. This
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  Speaker 3: recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 9: On a dead field flower by John Reid read filippovostadlework
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  Speaker 9: by Thomas Peter, Torn by some careless hand from thy
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  Speaker 9: mother's breast, by gentle breezes, fanned thy little leaves to
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  Speaker 9: rest here, dost thou lie forsaken?
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  Speaker 10: No more?
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  Speaker 9: Shalt thou awaken to gladden with thy beauty? The wander
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  Speaker 9: oppressed no more? At early morn, when the lark's gay
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  Speaker 9: song through grove and meadow born calls his merry mates along,
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  Speaker 9: Shall thy tiny arms outspreading their grateful odor, shedding, give
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  Speaker 9: silent speaking, Welcome to Nature's joyous throng, peaceful and calm,
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  Speaker 9: thy sleep, thy life's race run. Thou hadst no cause
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  Speaker 9: to weep, no duty left undone, sweet little withered blossom.
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  Speaker 9: How many a blighted bosom would fain repose as softly
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  Speaker 9: beneath a summer's sun. How many a child of care
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  Speaker 9: won by Thy power might raise his voice in prayer
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  Speaker 9: taught by thee little flower.
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  Speaker 11: Ah.
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  Speaker 9: Surely thou wast given a gracious wound from Heaven to
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  Speaker 9: throw its charm on sinful earth, the one short, blissful hour. Farewell,
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  Speaker 9: I may not stay thy frail, drooping form heeds, not
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  Speaker 9: the sun's fierce ray, nor winter's frowning storm. Like thee,
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  Speaker 9: kind hearts have perished by those that should have cherished
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  Speaker 9: and held the shield of friendship to shelter them from harm.
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  Speaker 9: Like thee, I soon must fade, and neath the sky,
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  Speaker 9: lifeless and cold be laid. But though I claim no sigh,
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  Speaker 9: though no font heart may miss me, when death's pale
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  Speaker 9: lips shall kiss me. If my short life be pure
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  Speaker 9: as thine, I need not fear to die. May eighteen
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  Speaker 9: fifty seven, end of poem. This recording is in the
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  Speaker 9: public domain.
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  Speaker 12: Pomona by William Morris, read for LibriVox dot Org by
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  Speaker 12: Newgate novelist. I am the ancient apple Queen, as once
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  Speaker 12: I was so am I now for evermore a hope
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  Speaker 12: unseen betwixt the blossom and the bow.
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  Speaker 2: Ah.
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  Speaker 12: Where's the river's hidden gold? And where the windy grave
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  Speaker 12: of Troy yet come? I? As I came of old
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  Speaker 12: from out the heart of Somer's joy end of poem.
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  Speaker 12: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 13: Pray UDEs by T. S. Eliot, read for librovox dot
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  Speaker 13: Org by Daphne Man. One the winter's evening settles down
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  Speaker 13: with smells of sticks in passage ways six o'clock, the
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  Speaker 13: burnt out tents of smoky days and now agusty sour wraps,
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  Speaker 13: the grimy scraps of withered leaves across your feet, and
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  Speaker 13: newspapers from vacant lots. The sours beat on empty blinds
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  Speaker 13: and chimney pots, and at the corner of the street
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  Speaker 13: a lonely cub horse streams and stamps, and then the
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  Speaker 13: lighting of the lamps. Two the morning comes to consciousness
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  Speaker 13: of faint, stale smells of beer from the sawdust trampel street,
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  Speaker 13: with all the muddy feet that press to early coffee stands,
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  Speaker 13: with the other masquerades. The time resumes. One thinks of
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  Speaker 13: all the hands that are raising dingy sates in a
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  Speaker 13: thousand furnished rooms. Three, you tossed a blanket from the bed,
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  Speaker 13: You lay upon your back and waited, You dozed, And
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  Speaker 13: what's the night? Revealing the thousand sordid images of which
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  Speaker 13: your soul is constituted. They flickered against the ceiling. And
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  Speaker 13: when all the world came back, and the light crept
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  Speaker 13: up between the sutters, and you heard the sparrows in
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  Speaker 13: the gutters, you had such a vision of the street
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  Speaker 13: as the street hardly understands, sitting along the bedsides, where
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  Speaker 13: you curled the papers from your hair and clasped the
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  Speaker 13: yellow soles of feet in the palms of both soiled hands. Four.
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  Speaker 13: His soul stretched tight across the skies that fade behind
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  Speaker 13: a city block, or trembled by insistent feet at four
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  Speaker 13: and five and six o'clock, and short, square fingers tough
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  Speaker 13: in pipes and evening newspapers, and eyes assert of certain certainties,
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  Speaker 13: the conscience of a blackened street, impatient to assume the world.
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  Speaker 13: I am moved by fancies that are curled around the
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  Speaker 13: semages and cling the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely
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  Speaker 13: suffering thing. Wipe your hand across your mouth and love
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  Speaker 13: the worlds revolve like Acian women gathering fuel in vacant
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  Speaker 13: lots and of pomb. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 11: The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow read four LibriVox
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  Speaker 11: dot Org by Ian King. The day is cold and
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  Speaker 11: dark and dreary. It rains, and the wind is never weary.
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  Speaker 11: The vine still clings to the moldering wall, but every
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  Speaker 11: gust the dead leaves fall, and the day is dark
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  Speaker 11: and dreary. My life is cold and dark and dreary.
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  Speaker 11: It rains, and the wind is never weary. My thoughts
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  Speaker 11: still cling to the moldering past, but the hopes of
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  Speaker 11: youth fall thick in the blast, and the days are
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  Speaker 11: dark and dreary. Be still sad, heart, and cease repining.
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  Speaker 11: Behind the clouds is the sun still shining. Thy fate
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  Speaker 11: is the common fate of all into each life. Some
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  Speaker 11: rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.
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  Speaker 11: End poem. This recording is in public.
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  Speaker 12: Domain recognition by Arthur Adams. Read philibrivox dot org. When yougate,
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  Speaker 12: novelist swift was our glance as a stab, meeting and
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  Speaker 12: severing us, you flashing past in a cab ay on
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  Speaker 12: the top of a bus. So I have found you
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  Speaker 12: at last. This moment opened a door flooding our souls
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  Speaker 12: with the past. So I have known you before. You
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  Speaker 12: are the woman I sought age after age tirelessly to
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  Speaker 12: possess you. We fought all the dead egos in me,
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  Speaker 12: as in those lives far removed. Once more our pathways
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  Speaker 12: have crossed. Yours, the one soul that I loved, longed for,
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  Speaker 12: and reached for and lost, You are the same. I
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  Speaker 12: recall all the desire and the strife. You are the
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  Speaker 12: one in them all I have loved, life after life
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  Speaker 12: lost you. I treasured your lips, ever remembered your eyes.
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  Speaker 12: Death after death might eclipse I with each dawn, recognize
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  Speaker 12: so that I know you are you. Choose you so
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  Speaker 12: surely from all you have remembered me too. Your new
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  Speaker 12: self strives to recall swift that old hunger for you
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  Speaker 12: woke in me, unreconciled, and in that moment I knew,
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  Speaker 12: And in that moment you smiled. For though our loving
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  Speaker 12: the grave clos'd in forgetfulness, yet keepsakes mementos you gave,
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  Speaker 12: trusting I should not forget till I am, but as
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  Speaker 12: a scroll telling an old tale, anew all this rich garment,
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  Speaker 12: my soul, patterned with memories of you. Eons ago we
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  Speaker 12: first met, till in star splendor we mate. Eons must
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  Speaker 12: fade and forget drowsing eternity. Wait, and in those long
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  Speaker 12: years aloof lives upon lives, yet must run till I
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  Speaker 12: the warp you the woof richly are woven in one.
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  Speaker 12: So though the time may be late, when we together
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  Speaker 12: are brought, these two are masters of fate, he who seeks,
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  Speaker 12: she who is sought. And in that future at last
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  Speaker 12: I shall remember you. Thus you in a cab drifting
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  Speaker 12: past I on the top of a boss. End of poem.
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  Speaker 12: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: The Ride on the Eyes by ISAIAHS. Taigna, translated from
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  Speaker 5: Swedish by Thomas and Martha Holcomb read fullybrivoxs dot Org
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  Speaker 5: by Sonya. The Ride on the Ice King Ring to
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  Speaker 5: a banquet. His queen would take the ice like a mirror,
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  Speaker 5: overspread the lake. Go not on the ice, said the stranger.
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  Speaker 10: Bold.
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  Speaker 5: It may break, and the bath is too deep and cold.
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  Speaker 5: The king answered, Ring is not easily drowned. Whoever is fearful,
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  Speaker 5: let him go round. The stranger was angered and sullen frowned.
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  Speaker 5: Then quickly his skates to his feet, he bound. The
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  Speaker 5: sledge horse sets out. He is strong and free. His
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  Speaker 5: nostrils are flaming, so glad is he strike out, cried
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  Speaker 5: the monarch might charge a good and show if you
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  Speaker 5: are of the slip of blood, as swift as a
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  Speaker 5: storm on the sea, his speed the prayers of the queen.
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  Speaker 5: Does the king not heed. The stranger in mail on
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  Speaker 5: his skates is not still, but passes them swiftly whenever
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  Speaker 5: he will. He writes many ruins on the ice, besides
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  Speaker 5: and over her name, lovely Ingeborg writes, they swiftly speed
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  Speaker 5: onward the lake to spend, but under them lurketh the
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  Speaker 5: treacherous ran her silvery roof. In a trice, she breaks
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  Speaker 5: and catches the sled. In the hole she makes the
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  Speaker 5: cheeks of the beautiful queen, turned pale, then comes like
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  Speaker 5: a whirlwind, the skater and mail. He buries his skate
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  Speaker 5: in the ice to clasp the steed's flowing maine in
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  Speaker 5: his iron grasp. With one single effort his arm, he
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  Speaker 5: swings and charger and sled to the firm eye springs
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  Speaker 5: that stroke, said ring was a noble one, not freech
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  Speaker 5: of the strong could have better done. So they all
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  Speaker 5: returned to the house of the King, the stranger remaining
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  Speaker 5: until the spring end of poem. This recording is in
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  Speaker 5: the public domain.
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  Speaker 14: Son At one sixteen by William Shakespeare. This is a
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  Speaker 14: LibriVox recording by Rebecca s. Let me not to the
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  Speaker 14: marriage of true minds, admit impediments. Love is not love,
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  Speaker 14: which alters when it alteration, finds or bends with the
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  Speaker 14: remover to remove.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 14: No, it is an ever fixed mark that looks on
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  Speaker 14: tempests and is never shaken. It is the star to
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  Speaker 14: every wandering bark, whose works unknown. Although his height be taken,
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  Speaker 14: Love's not time's fool. Though rosy lips and cheeks within
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  Speaker 14: his bending sickles compass come. Love alters not with his
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  Speaker 14: brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to
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  Speaker 14: the edge of doom. If this be error, and upon
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  Speaker 14: me proved, I never writ nor no man ever loved.
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  Speaker 14: End of Sonnet. All libriyvox recordings are in the public domain.
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  Speaker 14: Soon At eighteen by William Shakespeare. This is a LibriVox
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  Speaker 14: recording by Rebecca S. Shall I compare thee to a
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  Speaker 14: summer's day. Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough
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  Speaker 14: winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer's
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  Speaker 14: lease hath all too short a date sometime too hot,
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  Speaker 14: the eye of heaven shines, and often is his gold
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  Speaker 14: complexion dimmed. And every fair from fair sometime declines, by
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  Speaker 14: chance or nature's changing course untrimmed. But thy eternal summer
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  Speaker 14: shall not fade, nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,
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  Speaker 14: nor shall death brag Thou wanderest in his shade. When
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  Speaker 14: in eternal lines to time thou growest. So long as
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  Speaker 14: men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this,
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  Speaker 14: and this gives life to thee end of Sonnet. All
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  Speaker 14: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. Sonnet seventy three
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  Speaker 14: by William Shakespeare. This is a LibriVox recording by Rebecca s.
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  Speaker 14: That time of year, thou mayest in me behold when
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  Speaker 14: yellow leaves, or none or few do hang upon those
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  Speaker 14: boughs which shake against the cold, bear ruined choirs, where
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  Speaker 14: late the sweet birds sang in me. Thou seest the
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  Speaker 14: twilight of such day, as after sunset fadeth in the west,
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  Speaker 14: which by and by black night doth take away death
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  Speaker 14: second self, that seals up all and rest in me.
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  Speaker 14: Thou seest the glowing of such fire that all the
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  Speaker 14: ashes of his youth doth lie as the death bed,
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  Speaker 14: whereon it must expire, consumed with that which it was
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  Speaker 14: nourished by This thou perceivest which makes thy love more strong,
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  Speaker 14: to love that well which thou must leave ere long
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  Speaker 14: and ifsonet. All libryvox recordings are in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Spring by Jared Manly Hopkins, read for LibriVox dot Org
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  Speaker 1: by Winston Tharp. Nothing is so beautiful as spring, when
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  Speaker 1: weeds and wheels shoot long and lovely and lush thrush
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  Speaker 1: His eggs look little low heavens and thrush through the
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  Speaker 1: echoing timbreness O rinse and wring the ear. It strikes
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  Speaker 1: like lightnings to hear him sing. The glassy pear tree,
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  Speaker 1: leaves and blooms they brush the descending blue. That blue
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  Speaker 1: is all in a rush with richness, the racing lambs
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  Speaker 1: who have fair their fling. What is all this juice
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  Speaker 1: and all this joy a strain of the Earth's sweet
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  Speaker 1: being in the beginning in eden garden, have yet before
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  Speaker 1: it kloy before a cloud Christ Lord and sorrow, with
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  Speaker 1: sinning innocent mind and may day and girl and boy
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  Speaker 1: most o made child thy choice and worthy, the winning
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  Speaker 1: and the poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 9: Sunset by Fyodor Maynard read for LibriVox dot Org by
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  Speaker 9: Thomas Peter. I have seen death in many a varied
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  Speaker 9: guy's cruel and tender, rude and beautiful, looking through windows
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  Speaker 9: in a young child's eyes, stealing as soft as shadows
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  Speaker 9: in a pool, falling, a sudden arrow of dismay blown
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  Speaker 9: on a bugle with an iron note, the slow and
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  Speaker 9: gentle progress of decay, the taking of a strong man
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  Speaker 9: by the throat. I have seen flowers wither, and the
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  Speaker 9: leaf of lasty summer burned to hectic red. But ah
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  Speaker 9: that splendid death, untouched by grief, the sun with glad
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  Speaker 9: and golden visaged head superbly standing on his deadly pyre,
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  Speaker 9: and sinking in a sea of jeweled fire. February tenth,
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  Speaker 9: nineteen eighteen. End of poem. This recording is in the
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  Speaker 9: public domain.
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  Speaker 11: To a Child by Louise Imogen Guinea read fourley provotional
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  Speaker 11: talk by Ian King dear Owayne, When you are minded
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  Speaker 11: to gather the perfect thing over Abergavenny climb in the evening,
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  Speaker 11: I have seen where orchist dances a saraband with the spring,
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  Speaker 11: where samphire leans to ocean and shakes in the word
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  Speaker 11: he saith, or the brood of the peasant ragweed, innocent,
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  Speaker 11: sweet of breath, runs with a wild Welsh river that
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  Speaker 11: never has heard of death. Where thrift with a foot
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  Speaker 11: shell tinted on the dark coast road delays, and foxglove
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  Speaker 11: flames in a ruin, and campion meekly lays on a
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  Speaker 11: crag's uneven shoulder, her satiny cheek for days. Well, these
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  Speaker 11: in their mortal beauty, and these in their youth abound.
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  Speaker 11: But over Abergavenny, past sunset hour, I found O holy
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  Speaker 11: grail of a flo the sun on the hilltop ground,
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  Speaker 11: and the poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: To Oliver Wendell Holmes by Edward P. Gild read Fullibrivoux
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  Speaker 5: dot Org by Sonia to Oliver Wendell Holmes on his
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  Speaker 5: departure for Europe, Good doctor, what has put it in
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  Speaker 5: your head to sail away across the ocean blue? Have
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  Speaker 5: you got tired of Boston? Or instead, do you mistrust
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  Speaker 5: that we are tired of you? You wanted to see England,
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  Speaker 5: and you thought that you might go for once in
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  Speaker 5: fifty years. Well, your own way, just make your visit short.
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  Speaker 5: So here is bon voyage, and also a few tears.
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  Speaker 5: We hope that you will have a joyful time, meet
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  Speaker 5: hosts of friends, and sit at many a feast. And
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  Speaker 5: when with all your wit and all your rhyme, you
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  Speaker 5: once are back in this your native crime, don't ask
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  Speaker 5: to sail again off to the east for well for
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  Speaker 5: five times fifty years at least end of poem. This
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  Speaker 5: recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 10: To the Grammarians. Why he writes wantonly by Johannes secondis
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  Speaker 10: fifteen eleven to fifteen thirty six, read for librevaks dot org.
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  Speaker 10: You ask why, thus I write in wanton strains, why
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  Speaker 10: love in every verse luxuriant reigns? Because I would not
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  Speaker 10: have dull, pedantce cumber my light effusions with their learned lumber.
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  Speaker 10: If lives of sainted men inspir'd my lays, or if
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  Speaker 10: I sang heroic Caesar's praise, what notes oppressive weight? Must
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  Speaker 10: I endure? What comments obvious readings to obscure what tedious
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  Speaker 10: stuff conceiv'd by addle brains to boys the certain cause
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  Speaker 10: of future pains? But while on kisses, I employ my
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  Speaker 10: song kisses or moist or dry, or short or long.
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  Speaker 10: Me summon the unmarried youth to aid me, bent on joy,
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  Speaker 10: the newly married maid me the gay bard whom lighter
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  Speaker 10: studies please wisely indulging in delicious ease. But from these
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  Speaker 10: sports sour scoliasts abstain these, Never with unhallowed hands profane,
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  Speaker 10: nor turn to grief what we to mirth, design lest
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  Speaker 10: punished for some soft, perverted line, wronged innocence, with tears
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  Speaker 10: unjustly shed. Wish the cold earth lie heavy on my head.
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  Speaker 10: End of pome. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 3: We live in deeds, not years, In thoughts not breaths
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  Speaker 3: by Philip James Bailey read for LibriVox dot Org by
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  Speaker 3: Phil shamph We live in deeds, not years, in thoughts,
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  Speaker 3: not breaths, in feelings, not in figures on a dial.
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  Speaker 3: We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives,
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  Speaker 3: who thinks, most, feels the noblest, acts the best. And
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  Speaker 3: he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest, lives in
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  Speaker 3: one hour more than in years. Do some whose fat
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  Speaker 3: blood sleeps as it slips along their veins. Life's but
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  Speaker 3: a means unto an end, that end beginning mean an
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  Speaker 3: end to all things. God, the dead have all the
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  Speaker 3: glory of the world. And a poem. This recording is
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  Speaker 3: in the public domain.
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  Speaker 8: What is to come We know not? By William Ernest
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  Speaker 8: Henley read for Librivaux dot org by brus Ka Chuck.
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  Speaker 8: What is to come we know not? But we know
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  Speaker 8: that what has been was good, was good to show,
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  Speaker 8: better to hide, and best of all, to bear. We
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  Speaker 8: are the masters of the days that were. We have lived,
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  Speaker 8: we have loved, we have suffered. Even so shall we
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  Speaker 8: not take the ebb who had the flow life was
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  Speaker 8: our friend? Now if it be our foe, Dear, though
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  Speaker 8: it spoil and break us, need we care? What is
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  Speaker 8: to come? Let the great winds their worst and wildest blow,
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  Speaker 8: or the gold weather round us? Mellow slow. We have
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  Speaker 8: fulfilled ourselves, and we can dare, and we can conquer,
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  Speaker 8: though we may not share in the rich quiet of
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  Speaker 8: the after glow. What is to come? End A poem.
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  Speaker 8: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 11: The Windy Night by AILN. Kill Readfolibrivox dot org by
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  Speaker 11: Ian King. You say you love to hear the wind
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  Speaker 11: like brazen trumpets in the night, that all its martial
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  Speaker 11: panoply wakes in your soul a wild delight you like
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  Speaker 11: to hear upon the roof the silver lances of the rain,
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  Speaker 11: and see the birch's cavalry go sweeping past the window pane,
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  Speaker 11: to see tall chestnuts fall like towers, while all our
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  Speaker 11: happy house is still, and like a charge with bayonets,
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  Speaker 11: the cedar trees rush up the hill. But I lie
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  Speaker 11: trembling in the night, as dark and wild as night
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  Speaker 11: can be, remembering songs that you have made, till through
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  Speaker 11: the night you come to me. End of poem. This
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  Speaker 11: recording is in the public.
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  Speaker 12: Written in Edinburgh by Arthur Henry Hallam read Wilipovox dot
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  Speaker 12: Org by Newgate novelist. Even thus methinks a city reared
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  Speaker 12: should be yea an imperial city that might hold five
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  Speaker 12: times a hundred noble towns in fee, and either with
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  Speaker 12: their might of babel old or the rich Roman pomp
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  Speaker 12: of empery, might stand compare highest in art's enrolled, highest
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  Speaker 12: in arms, brave tenement for the free who never crouched
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  Speaker 12: to thrones or sin for gold. Thus should her towers
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  Speaker 12: be raised with vicinage of clear, bold hills that curve
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  Speaker 12: her very streets, as if to vindicate mid choicest seats
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  Speaker 12: of art, abiding nature's majesty, and the broad sea beyond
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  Speaker 12: in calm or rage, chainless alike, and teaching liberty. End
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  Speaker 12: of poem. This recording is in the public domain.