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Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems - Alfred Castner King · This Side of Paradise

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  Speaker 1: Dedication and preface of Mountain Idols and Other Poems. This
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  Speaker 1: is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. Recording by Andrew Grance. Mountain Idols and
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  Speaker 1: Other Poems by Alfred Castner King. Dedication and preface to
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  Speaker 1: the many friends who have so kindly assisted in the
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  Speaker 1: arrangement of the manuscripts for publication. After the shadows of
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  Speaker 1: hopeless blindness descended upon me forever, this volume is affectionately
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  Speaker 1: dedicated preface of making many books. There is no end
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  Speaker 1: Ecclesiastes twelve twelve. When the above words were written by Solomon,
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  Speaker 1: King of Israel about three thousand years ago, they were
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  Speaker 1: possibly inspired by the existence, even at that early period,
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  Speaker 1: of an extensive and probably overweighted life literature. The same
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  Speaker 1: literary conditions are as true today as when the above
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  Speaker 1: truism emanated from that most wonderful of all human intellects.
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  Speaker 1: Every age and generation, as well as every changing religious
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  Speaker 1: or political condition, has brought with it its own peculiar
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  Speaker 1: and essentially differing current literature, which, as a rule, continued
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  Speaker 1: a brief season, and then vanished, perishing with the age
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  Speaker 1: and conditions which called it into being, Leaving, however, an
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  Speaker 1: occasional volume, masterpiece, or even quotation to become classic and
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  Speaker 1: in the form of standard literature, survive for generations and
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  Speaker 1: in many instances for ages. Poetry has always occupied a
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  Speaker 1: unique position in literature, and though from a pecuniary standpoint
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  Speaker 1: usually unprofitable, it enjoys the decided advantage of longevity. The
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  Speaker 1: mysterious ages of antiquity have bequeathed to all succeeding times
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  Speaker 1: several of Earth's noblest epics, while the contemporaneous prose, if
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  Speaker 1: any existed, has long lane buried in the inscrutable archives
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  Speaker 1: of the remote past. The two most notable of these,
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  Speaker 1: the Iliad and the Odyssey, are believed to have been
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  Speaker 1: transmitted from generation to generation orally by the minstrels and miniscingers,
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  Speaker 1: until the introduction or inception of the Greek alphabet, when
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  Speaker 1: they were reduced to parchment, and surviving all the vicissitudes
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  Speaker 1: of time and sequent political and religious change, still occupy
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  Speaker 1: a prominent place in literature. The Book of Job, generally
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  Speaker 1: accepted as the most ancient of writings, now extant, whether
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  Speaker 1: sacred or secular, was doubtless originally a primitive, though sublime,
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  Speaker 1: poetical effusion. The prose works contemporaneous with Chaucer, Spencer, and
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  Speaker 1: even with that most wonderful of literary epochs, the Elizabethan Age,
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  Speaker 1: are now practically obsolete, while the poetical efforts remain in
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  Speaker 1: some instances with increase east prominence. Someone, although just who
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  Speaker 1: is difficult to determine, though it Savors of the Greek
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  Speaker 1: school of philosophy, has delivered the following injunction, do right
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  Speaker 1: because it is right, not from fear of punishment or
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  Speaker 1: hope of reward. Waiving the question as to whether it
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  Speaker 1: is right or not to compose poetry, he who aspires
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  Speaker 1: in that direction can reasonably expect no material recompense, though
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  Speaker 1: the experience of Dante, Servantes, Lee, Hunt, and others proves
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  Speaker 1: conclusively that poets do not always escape punishment. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: about the only emolument to be expected is the gratification
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  Speaker 1: of an inherent and indefinable impulse, which impels one to
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  Speaker 1: the task with equal force, whether the ultimate result be
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  Speaker 1: affluence or a dungeon. The author of this unpretentious volume
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  Speaker 1: has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to
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  Speaker 1: our already inflated and overloaded literature unless it should contain
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  Speaker 1: something in the nature of a deviation from beaten literary paths.
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  Speaker 1: Whether the reading public will regardless as such or not
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  Speaker 1: is a question for the future to determine, As every
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  Speaker 1: book is a creature of circumstance and at the date
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  Speaker 1: of its publication an algebraic unknown quantity. It was not
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  Speaker 1: the original intention of the author to publish any of
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  Speaker 1: his effusions in collective form until more mature years and
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  Speaker 1: riper judgment should better qualify him for the task of composition,
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  Speaker 1: and should enable him to still further pursue the important
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  Speaker 1: studies of etymology, rhetoric, Latin and Greek, and complete the
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  Speaker 1: education which youthful environment denied. On the seventeenth of March
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  Speaker 1: eighty nineteen hundred, occurred an accident in the form of
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  Speaker 1: a premature mining explosion, which banished the light of the
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  Speaker 1: Colorado sun from his eyes forever, adding the almost insurmountable
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  Speaker 1: barrier of total and hopeless blindness to those of limit
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  Speaker 1: means and insufficient education. At first, further effort seemed useless,
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  Speaker 1: but as time meliorates in some degree even the most
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  Speaker 1: deplorable and distressing physical conditions. Ambitions slowly rallied, and while
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  Speaker 1: lying for several months of patient in various hospitals in
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  Speaker 1: an ineffectual attempt to regain even partial sight, the following
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  Speaker 1: ideas and efforts of past years were gradually recalled from
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  Speaker 1: the recesses of memory and reduced to their present form,
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  Speaker 1: in which, with no small hesitation and misgiving, they are
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  Speaker 1: presented to the consideration of the reading public, which, in
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  Speaker 1: the humble opinion of the author, has frequently failed to
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  Speaker 1: receive and appreciate productions of vastly superior merit. Juray, Colorado,
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  Speaker 1: March fifteenth, nineteen o one. End of dedication and preface.
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  Speaker 1: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: Grandeur by Alfred Castna King read for libertovox dot Org
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  Speaker 2: by Caveat, Dedicated to the mountains of the San Juan District, Colorado,
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  Speaker 2: as seen from the summit of Mount Wilson I stood
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  Speaker 2: at sunrise on the topmost part of lofty Mountain, massively sublime,
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  Speaker 2: a pinnacle of trachyot, seamed and scarred by countless generations,
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  Speaker 2: ceaseless war and struggle with the restless elements, a rugged
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  Speaker 2: point which shocked into the air, as if by ambition
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  Speaker 2: or desire, impelled to pierce the eternal precincts of the sky. Below,
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  Speaker 2: outspread a scene of such terrific grandeur lay that reeled
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  Speaker 2: the brain. Of what my eyes beheld. The hands would
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  Speaker 2: clutch involuntary and clutch from intuition for support. The eyes,
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  Speaker 2: by instinct closed, nor dared to gaze on such an
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  Speaker 2: awful and inspiring sight. The sun arose with bright, transcendent
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  Speaker 2: ray up from behind a bleak and barren reef, his
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  Speaker 2: face resplendent with beatitude, solar effulgence, and combustive gleam, bathing
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  Speaker 2: the scene in such a wealth of light that none
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  Speaker 2: could marvel. That primeval man, rude and untaught where'er the
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  Speaker 2: sun appeared, fell down and worshiped a wildness of weird,
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  Speaker 2: fantastic shapes of precipice and stern declivity, of dizzy heights
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  Speaker 2: and towering minarets, colossal columns and basaltic spires, which, pointing heavenward,
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  Speaker 2: appeared to wave him in benediction. Or the depths beneath
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  Speaker 2: uneven crags and cliffs of various forms abysmal depths and
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  Speaker 2: dire profundities, chasms so deep and awful that the eye
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  Speaker 2: of soaring eagle dare not gaze below, lest dizzied he
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  Speaker 2: should lose his aerial poise and headlong falling reach the
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  Speaker 2: gulf beneath majestic turrets and the stickly dome, which ovaled
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  Speaker 2: by the slow but tireless hand of eons of disintegrating time,
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  Speaker 2: still with impressive aspect, rears its brow, defiant of mutation
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  Speaker 2: and decay. The crevice, deep and inaccessible fissure and rent,
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  Speaker 2: where the intrusive dikes, creative and destructive agency leaves many,
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  Speaker 2: an enduring monument of motamorphic and eruptive power of molten
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  Speaker 2: deluge and volcanic flood, fracture and break. The silent stories
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  Speaker 2: tell of dire convulsion in ages past, of subterranean catastrophe
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  Speaker 2: and cataclysm of internal force. The trachyte wall, beseamed and
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  Speaker 2: battle scarred, The porphyritic tower and citadel, the granite ramparts
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  Speaker 2: and embattlements of nature's fought, impregnable and wild, stand as
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  Speaker 2: a symbol of eternal strength and hurl a challenge to
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  Speaker 2: the elements. Canyons of startling and appalling depths, with caverns
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  Speaker 2: vast and gloomy, which would seem meet for the haunt
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  Speaker 2: of Centaur, or of Gnome, the gorgan and the labyrinthodon,
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  Speaker 2: the clumsy mammoth and the dinosaur, or all gigantic and
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  Speaker 2: unwieldy shapes which Earth are seen in the mysterious past,
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  Speaker 2: would seem in more accord and harmony with such surroundings
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  Speaker 2: than the puny form of insign magnificant, conceited man, and interspersed.
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  Speaker 2: Amid these solemn peaks lie many a pleasant veil and
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  Speaker 2: grassy slope, besprinkled with the drooping columbine and fragrant growths
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  Speaker 2: of all harmonious tints, whose variegated colors punctuate grandeur with
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  Speaker 2: beauty and fearless bloom. In the forbidding shadows of the cliffs,
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  Speaker 2: and to the margin of the snowy combs, which still
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  Speaker 2: resist the sun's persuasive rays, a lakelet, cool, pellucid, and serene,
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  Speaker 2: fed by the drippings from eternal snows, light like a
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  Speaker 2: mirror neath a frowning cliff, or as a gem majestically
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  Speaker 2: a sconce in diadem of crag and pinnacle down towards
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  Speaker 2: the distant valley's sultry clime, both solitary and in straggling
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  Speaker 2: groups in solid phalanx, rigid and compact, A labyrinth of
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  Speaker 2: branches interspread, impervious to the rain and midday sun inform
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  Speaker 2: spontaneous without regard to the lore of uniformity. There stand
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  Speaker 2: in silent awe or whispering to the breeze. The somber
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  Speaker 2: fir and melancho pine and many a denuded avenue of
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  Speaker 2: varying and considerable width cut through the growth of balsam,
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  Speaker 2: spruce and pine, which stands erect and proud on either hand,
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  Speaker 2: attests the swift, desolating force of fearful, devastating avalanche. The
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  Speaker 2: mountain rill its pleasant music make as the descendant waters
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  Speaker 2: rolled along in rhythmic flow, and dulcett canterbill in various
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  Speaker 2: concord and harmonious pitch pursuant of its journey to the sea.
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  Speaker 2: The murmuring trouble of the rivulet, uniting with the deep
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  Speaker 2: and ponderous base of torrent wild and foaming cataract. The thunderous,
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  Speaker 2: reverberating tones and seething abolition of the falls are blended
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  Speaker 2: in one grand euphonious cord far in the hazy distance,
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  Speaker 2: as the eye, with vague perceptive vision penetrates lie the
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  Speaker 2: vast maces of ethereal hue stretched in a calm and
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  Speaker 2: sleepy quietude, dreamy repose, and blue tranquility. The eye rests
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  Speaker 2: on the drowsy scene, beholds a dim horizon which presents
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  Speaker 2: no line of demarcation or of bounds, a merging union,
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  Speaker 2: blurred and indistinct fulginous confusion that the eye in viewing gazes,
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  Speaker 2: but no more discerns which is the earth and which
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  Speaker 2: the azure sky, but mark the change. A cloud, which
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  Speaker 2: floated in the atmosphere, an inconsiderable and feathery speck of
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  Speaker 2: no proportions, now augmented, wears a threatening aspect, ominously dark,
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  Speaker 2: enveloping the heaven's canopy in lowering shadow and portentous gloom.
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  Speaker 2: In pall of ambient obscurity, the forked lightnings ramify and
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  Speaker 2: play upon a background of supucral black. The growing thunder's
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  Speaker 2: rumble a reply of detonation awful and profound to every
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  Speaker 2: corrugation's vivid gleam in deep crescendo and fortissimo in quavering
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  Speaker 2: tremolo and stately fugue echoes reverberates and dies away, But
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  Speaker 2: soon the sun was smiling radiance. The orifice, through rift
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  Speaker 2: and aperture, invades the storm and dissipates the clouds, which scatter,
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  Speaker 2: cowering and ephemeral, hugging the cliffs or the dire abyss
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  Speaker 2: hover in fleecy, ever changing form, and in a transient season, disappear,
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  Speaker 2: vanish as man must vanish and are gone. The moist
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  Speaker 2: precipitation of the storm revives, refreshes, and invigorates the various vegetation,
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  Speaker 2: and produres each blade of grass and flower out with
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  Speaker 2: a tear, as nature weeping over the faults of man.
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  Speaker 2: The day recedes in twilight's neutral shades, succeeds in turn
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  Speaker 2: and ushers in the night, whose wings outstretched and shadowy descend,
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  Speaker 2: and in nocturnal mantle robes the scene. A hush prevails,
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  Speaker 2: oppressive and profound, a silence broken only by the breeze,
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  Speaker 2: A dormant quiet essence and repose, pervading, calm and sweet
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  Speaker 2: to oblivion as nature wrapped in soft, refreshing sleep. Far
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  Speaker 2: in the east, a solitary star peeps through the somber
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  Speaker 2: curtain of the night in hesitating dubitation, burns in lowly splendor,
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  Speaker 2: flashes for her time till scattering celestial lights appear, the
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  Speaker 2: vanguard of an astral multitude of constellations, dueled and serene,
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  Speaker 2: which fill the lofty dome of space, until the heavens
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  Speaker 2: sparkle with the myriad of spectra, nebulae and satellite with
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  Speaker 2: stellus scentillation, and the orbs of less refulgence which reflective
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  Speaker 2: shine with falling star and training meteor in one grand culmination,
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  Speaker 2: glittering to their creator's glory. A burst of mellow lunar
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  Speaker 2: radiance inundates and illuminates the scene. The waxing moon in
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  Speaker 2: her meridian, full her beam vicarious disseminates and shining hides
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  Speaker 2: with the superior light, the twinkling beauty of the firmament,
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  Speaker 2: at the stupendous and inspiring sight of cosmic grandeur of
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  Speaker 2: the universe, a sense of vague and overwhelming awe of
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  Speaker 2: inconceivable immensity. The being's inmost recess permeates and man the
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  Speaker 2: atom in comparison, in spellbound admiration, mutely stands, whose speculative
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  Speaker 2: meditation dwells on that most solemn of impressive thoughts, the
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  Speaker 2: goodness of the deity to man. Footnote composer Saint Anthony's Hospital, Denver, Colorado,
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  Speaker 2: from which the author was led hopelessly blind end of poem.
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  Speaker 2: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 3: Nature's Child by Alfred Kassner King read for librovox dot
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  Speaker 3: Org by Parker Shannon. I love to tread the solitudes,
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  Speaker 3: the forests and the trackless woods, where nature, undisturbed by man,
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  Speaker 3: pursues her voluntary plan, where Nature's chemistry distills the fountains
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  Speaker 3: and the laughing rills. I love to coaff her sparkling
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  Speaker 3: wine and breathe the fragrance of the pine. I loved
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  Speaker 3: dash the crystal dews from floral shapes of varied hues
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  Speaker 3: and interweave the modest white of columbine in Garland's bright
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  Speaker 3: I love to lie within the shade on grassy couch
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  Speaker 3: by a nature maid and listen to the warbling notes
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  Speaker 3: from her fair songster's feathered throats, and freed from artificial wants,
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  Speaker 3: I love to dwell in nature's haunts and by the
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  Speaker 3: mountain's crystal lake. A rustic habitation make I.
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  Speaker 4: Love to scale the mountain height and watch the eagle
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  Speaker 4: in his flight, or gaze upon the azure sea of
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  Speaker 4: aerial immensity. I love the busy marts of trade. I
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  Speaker 4: love the things which men have made. Though man has charms,
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  Speaker 4: none such as these in him the child of nature
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  Speaker 4: sees and of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: To the Pines by Alfred Kasner King read for Librivoks
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  Speaker 5: dot Org by al A. Mapstone Ye sad musicians of
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  Speaker 5: the wood, whose dirges fill the solitude, whose minor strains
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  Speaker 5: and melodies are wafted on the whispering breeze, whose plaintive
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  Speaker 5: chants and listless size ascend as incense to the skies.
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  Speaker 5: Do solemn tones afford relief with you as men? A
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  Speaker 5: vent for grief? End of poem. This recording is in
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  Speaker 5: the public domain.
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  Speaker 6: Reflections by Alfred Kastner King read for LibriVox dot Org
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  Speaker 6: by Ethan On the margin of a lakelet in a
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  Speaker 6: rugged mountain climb, where precipice and pinnacle of countenance sublime
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  Speaker 6: cast their weird, austere reflections in the water's glistening sheen.
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  Speaker 6: I strolled in templative mood, both pensive and serene, as
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  Speaker 6: in a crystal mirror. In that lakelet's placid face. I
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  Speaker 6: saw the mountains upside down with all their pristine grace.
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  Speaker 6: I saw each cliff and point of rocks. I saw
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  Speaker 6: the stately pine inverted in fantastic form below the water line.
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  Speaker 6: I paused in admiration and with calm complacency. I marveled
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  Speaker 6: at this photograph from Nature's gallery. And as my eyes
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  Speaker 6: surveyed the scene with solemn grandeur fraught, this simile flashed
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  Speaker 6: through my mind as instantly as thought as the stern,
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  Speaker 6: majestic mountains, without error or mistake, were reflected in the
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  Speaker 6: bosom of that cool, pellucid lake. So our every thought
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  Speaker 6: and action, be it deed of hate or love, may
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  Speaker 6: be photographed in record in that gallery above. End of poem.
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  Speaker 6: This recording is in the public domain. Recording by Ethan
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  Speaker 6: Life's Mystery by Alfred Kastner King, read for LibriVox dot
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  Speaker 6: Org by Ethan. I live, I move, I know not
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  Speaker 6: how nor why? Float does a transient bubble on the
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  Speaker 6: air as fades the eventide, I too must die? I came,
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  Speaker 6: I know not whence I journey where? End of poem.
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  Speaker 6: This recording is in the public domain. Recording by Ethan.
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  Speaker 6: The Fallen Tree by Alfred castnar King read for LibriVox
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  Speaker 6: dot Org by Ethan. I passed along a mountain road
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  Speaker 6: which led me through a wooden glen, remote from dwelling
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  Speaker 6: or abode, and ordinary haunts of men, and worried from
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  Speaker 6: the dust and heat. Beneath a tree, I found a seat.
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  Speaker 6: The tree, a tall, majestic spruce, which had perhaps for centuries,
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  Speaker 6: with stood without a moment's truce, the winged warfare of
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  Speaker 6: the breeze, a monarch of the solitude, which well might
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  Speaker 6: grace the noblest wood. Beneath its cool and welcome shade,
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  Speaker 6: protected from the noontide rays, the birds amid its branches
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  Speaker 6: played and caroled forth their twittering praise. A squirrel perched
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  Speaker 6: upon a limb and chattered with loquacious them ere, yet
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  Speaker 6: that self same week had sped on my return. I
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  Speaker 6: sought its shade, but where it reared its form instead
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  Speaker 6: a fallen monarch. I surveyed, prostrate and broken on the ground,
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  Speaker 6: nor longer cast its shade around. Uprooted and disheveled. There
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  Speaker 6: the monarch of the forest lay, as if in desolate despair,
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  Speaker 6: its last resistance, fell away and overwhelmed in evil hour,
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  Speaker 6: went down before the tempest's power. Such are the final
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  Speaker 6: works of fate. The birds to other branches flew, and man,
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  Speaker 6: whatever his estate, must face that same mutation too. To
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  Speaker 6: day I stand erect and tall. The morrow may record
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  Speaker 6: my fall. End of poem. This recording is in the
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  Speaker 6: public domain. Recorded by Ethan.
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  Speaker 7: There is an Air of Majesty by Alfred Kastner King
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  Speaker 7: read for LibriVox dot Org by George Emerson. There is
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  Speaker 7: an air of majesty, A bearing dignified and free about
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  Speaker 7: the mountain peaks, each crag of weather beaten stone presents
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  Speaker 7: a grandeur of its own to him who seeks. There
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  Speaker 7: is a proud, defiant mind, expressive, stern and yet serene
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  Speaker 7: about the precipice, whose rugged form looks grimly down and
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  Speaker 7: answers with an austere frown the sunlight's kiss, the mountain,
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  Speaker 7: with the snowbank crowned, the gorge abysmal and profound, impress
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  Speaker 7: with aspect grand with unfeigned reverence, I see in cannon
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  Speaker 7: and declivity the all wise hand. End of poem. This
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  Speaker 7: recording is in the public domain. Think not that the
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  Speaker 7: heart is devoid of emotion by Alfred Kastner King read
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  Speaker 7: for LibriVox dot org by George Emerson. Think not that
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  Speaker 7: the heart is devoid of emotion because of a countenance
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  Speaker 7: rugged and stern. The bosom may hide the most fervent devotion,
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  Speaker 7: as shadowy forests had floweret infern as the pearls which
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  Speaker 7: are down in the depths of the ocean. The heart
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  Speaker 7: may have treasures which few can discern. Think not the
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  Speaker 7: heart barren because no reflection is flashed from the depths
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  Speaker 7: of its secret embrace. Maternal appearance may baffle detection, and
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  Speaker 7: yet the heart beat with an ethical grace. The breast
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  Speaker 7: may be charged with the truest affection and never betray
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  Speaker 7: it by action or face. End of poem. This recording
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  Speaker 7: is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Humanities Stream by Alfred Castner King read for LibriVox dot
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  Speaker 1: org by Andrew gaunce. I stood upon a crowded thoroughfare
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  Speaker 1: within a city's confines, where were met all classes and conditions,
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  Speaker 1: and surveyed from a secluded nicher aperture the various, ever
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  Speaker 1: changing multitude which passed along in restless turbulence, and as
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  Speaker 1: a human river ebbed and flowed within its banks of
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  Speaker 1: brick and masonry. Within them, this vast and heterogeneous throng,
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  Speaker 1: one might discern all stages and degrees, from wealth and
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  Speaker 1: power to helpless indigence, extravagance to trenchant penury, and all
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  Speaker 1: extremes of want and misery. Some blessed by wealth, some
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  Speaker 1: cursed by poverty, some in positions neutral to them both.
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  Speaker 1: Some wore a gaunt and ill conditioned look which told
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  Speaker 1: its tale of lack of nourishment, while others showed that
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  Speaker 1: irritated air which speaks of gout and pampered appetite. Some
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  Speaker 1: following vocations quite reverse from those which nature had endowed them.
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  Speaker 1: For some passed with face self satisfied and calm, as
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  Speaker 1: if the world bore nothing else but joy. And some
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  Speaker 1: there were who, from the cradle's mouth, as they pursued
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  Speaker 1: their journey to the grave, had felt no throb save
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  Speaker 1: that of misery. The man of large affairs passed by
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  Speaker 1: in haste, with mind preoccupied nor thought of else, save
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  Speaker 1: undertakings which concerned himself. The shallow sun of misplaced opulence
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  Speaker 1: came strutting by with self important air, with head erect
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  Speaker 1: in a contemptuous poise, as if the stars were subject
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  Speaker 1: to his will, and even the golden sun was something
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  Speaker 1: base which had offended, with its wholesome light and shining
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  Speaker 1: on so great a personage, a being more than ordinary clay,
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  Speaker 1: and much superior to the vulgar herd. Some faces passed
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  Speaker 1: which knew no kindly look, and felt no friendly pressure
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  Speaker 1: of the hand. And if the face depict the character,
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  Speaker 1: some passed so steeped in crime and villainy that Judas's vile,
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  Speaker 1: ill favored countenance would seem, in contrast quite respectable. Some
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  Speaker 1: features glowed with unfeigned honesty, some grimaced in dissimulating craft.
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  Speaker 1: Some smiled benignantly and passed along. Some faces meek, some
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  Speaker 1: stern and resolute, some the embodiment of gentleness, some whose
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  Speaker 1: specific aspects plainly told their fondest dreams were not of
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  Speaker 1: earth but heaven. A newly wedded couple passed that way
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  Speaker 1: in the sweet zenith of their honeymoon, but little dreaming
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  Speaker 1: what the future held. The light and trivial fool, the
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  Speaker 1: brainless fop, the staid and sober priest and minister, and
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  Speaker 1: she who worshiped at proud fashions, shrine, the mental giant,
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  Speaker 1: serious and sad, the thoughtful student and philosopher, and of
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  Speaker 1: intellect diminutive, the man of letters with abstracted mien, and
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  Speaker 1: he whose every thought was on the toil which made
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  Speaker 1: his bare existence possible. The blushing maiden, pure and innocent,
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  Speaker 1: the stately grandam, dignified and gray. The matron with the
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  Speaker 1: babe upon her breast, The silly, superannuated flirt who nursed
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  Speaker 1: her waning beauty day by day, and still essayed to
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  Speaker 1: act the role of youth. The gay coquette and belle
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  Speaker 1: of other days, who, in life's morning with disdainful laugh,
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  Speaker 1: had quaffed the cup of pleasure to its dregs, and
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  Speaker 1: now grown old, must pay the penalty in wrinkles and
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: uncourted loneliness. The widow, who, but newly desolate, would grasp
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  Speaker 1: a hand, then start to find it gone. The spendthrift,
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  Speaker 1: and the sordid usurer, who knew no sentiment save lust
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  Speaker 1: for gold. The bloated drunkard, sinking neath the weight of wassile, inclination, dissolute.
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  Speaker 1: The youth, who, following his baleful steps, reeled for the
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  Speaker 1: first time from intemperance, and she who had forgot her
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  Speaker 1: covenant in brazen infamy and unwept shame. The good, the bad,
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  Speaker 1: the impious and unjust, the energetic and the indolent, the
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  Speaker 1: adolescent and the venerable, passed by, pursuant of their various ways.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: The aged and decrepit plodded by, whom one would think
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  Speaker 1: were ripe for any tomb, yet quailed at dissolutions very thought.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: The crippled and deformed, with cane and crutch, came limping
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: by as Eddy's in the stream. The mendicant, whose eyes
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  Speaker 1: might never see the golden sunlight, felt his way along,
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  Speaker 1: and though the world was dark, still shrank from death.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Some faces showed the trace of recent tears, and some
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  Speaker 1: revealed the impress of despair. Others endeavored with a careless
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  Speaker 1: smile to hide abreast, surcharged with hopelessness, as one afflicted
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: with a foul disease strives to avoid the scrutinizing gaze
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: by the assumption of indifference. Some whose misfortunes and adversities
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: and oft repeated disappointments dried the fountain heads of kindness
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: and had turned life's sweetest joys to gall and bitterness,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: each face betrayed some sort or form of woe in
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  Speaker 1: more than one. I read a tragedy. How complex is existence?
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: What a maze of complication and entanglement. Each thread, combining
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  Speaker 1: with the other threads, fulfills its office in the labyrinth.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Each link concatenates the other links, which constitute the vast
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: and endless chain of human life and human destiny, the
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  Speaker 1: strange phantasmagoria of fate. So we, in life's procession, pass
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  Speaker 1: along to the accompaniment of secret dirge or laughter interspersed
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  Speaker 1: with tear and groan, Nor pause a moment, nor retrace
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  Speaker 1: a step, but march in Fate's spectacular review in pageant
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: to our common goal the grave end of poem. This
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 8: Nature's Lullaby by Alfred Kastner King read for LibriVox dot
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  Speaker 8: Org by Larry will A mountain nocturn in forced shade.
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  Speaker 8: My couch is made, and there I calmly lie with thought,
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: confined in pensive mind, and contemplate the sky. I wonder
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  Speaker 8: if the frowning cliff, the valley, and the wood of
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  Speaker 8: rugged freaks of mountain peaks enjoy their solitude. The heavens
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  Speaker 8: hold the sphere of gold. A full and placid moon
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  Speaker 8: suspended high in cloudless sky, with constellation strewn its mellow beam,
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  Speaker 8: un rill and stream and silvery sheen. I see before
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  Speaker 8: it's light the shades of night as evil spirits flee
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  Speaker 8: in space far A shooting star with swift, uncertain course
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: in dazzling sparks, its passage marks as it expends its force,
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: the mountain's bare reflected its glare of weird unearthly light,
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: and e'en the skies in glad surprise, behold its gorgeous flight.
• 31:59
  Speaker 8: The spruce and pine at timberline and straggling patches strewn
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  Speaker 8: surcharged the brees with melodies the force plaintive tune as
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  Speaker 8: they descend, the waters blend in babbling harmony, and soothe
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  Speaker 8: to rest my tranquil breast with Nature's lullaby in the poem.
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  Speaker 8: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 9: The Spirit of Freedom Is Born of the Mountains by
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  Speaker 9: Alfred Kastner King, read for LibriVox dot Org by Sawyer Ruis.
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  Speaker 9: The Spirit of Freedom is Born of the Mountains in
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  Speaker 9: gorgeon and canyon at hovers and dwells pervading the torrents
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  Speaker 9: and crystalline fountains which dashed through the valleys and forest
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  Speaker 9: clad Dell's spirit of freedom, so firm and implant is
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  Speaker 9: born on the breeze, whose invisible waves descend from the
• 32:53
  Speaker 9: mountain peaks stern and defiant, created for freemen, but never
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  Speaker 9: for slaves. End of poem. This recording is in the
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  Speaker 9: public domain. Recording by Sawyer Ruis.
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  Speaker 5: The Valley of the Saint Miguel by Alfred Casna King
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  Speaker 5: read for LibriVox dot Org by our mapstone. In the
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  Speaker 5: Golden West, by fond nature blessed lies a veal which
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  Speaker 5: my heart holds deer. Where the zephyr blows from eternal
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: snows and tempers the atmosphere where the torrent falls, or
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  Speaker 5: the mountain walls as its thunderous echoes thrill, Where the
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  Speaker 5: sparkling mist by the rainbow kiss decks. The Valley of
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  Speaker 5: Saint Miguel, where the birds in spring in their season,
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  Speaker 5: sing their spontaneous melodies. Where the columbine and the stately
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  Speaker 5: pine stand quivering in the breeze, where the aspen tall hugs,
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  Speaker 5: the trachyte and the wild rose bedecks. The hill where
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  Speaker 5: the willows weep and their vigils keep on the banks
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  Speaker 5: of the sam Miguel, where the mountains high cleave the
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  Speaker 5: azure sky with their turrets so bleak and gray, where
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  Speaker 5: the morning light crowns the dizzy height at the break
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  Speaker 5: of a summer's day, where the crags look down with
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  Speaker 5: an austere frown, or the valley so calm and still,
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  Speaker 5: where the mazers blue blend their dreamy hue with the
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  Speaker 5: skies of the San Miguel, where the mountains hold a
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  Speaker 5: vast wealth of gold. In the quartz Ledge and Placer Bar,
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: where the hills resound with the constant sound of the
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  Speaker 5: stamp mills battering jar, where the waters dash with the
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: rhythmic splash of the cascade and mountain rill as they
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  Speaker 5: laugh and flow to the lands below. Through the turbulent
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: Sam Miguel, where the shadows glide in the even tide,
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  Speaker 5: and the sun to nocturnal rest with the dazzling rays
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  Speaker 5: of a world ablaze sinks into the distant west, when
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  Speaker 5: the yellow leaf of existence brief brings the hour when
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  Speaker 5: the pulse is still. May my ashes rest in the
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  Speaker 5: golden West, on the banks of the Saint Miguel, end
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  Speaker 5: of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 8: To Mother Huberta by Alfred Castner King, read for Librevox
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  Speaker 8: dot Org by Larry Wilson, as repeated in course on
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  Speaker 8: the anniversary of her name's Day by the Sisters of
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  Speaker 8: hubert at Saint Anthony's Hospital, Denver, Colorado, October twenty ninth,
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  Speaker 8: nineteen hundred. Mother, our Gridians be to THEE on the
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  Speaker 8: glad anniversary of this thy festive day, Thy daughters, daughters
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  Speaker 8: not of earth, but bound by cords of heavenly birth,
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  Speaker 8: their love and creegis pay We thank THEE Mother for
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  Speaker 8: thy care, thy watchfulness and fervent prayer. And if tis
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  Speaker 8: Heaven's will, may many a returning year and names day
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  Speaker 8: find our mother here constant and watchful still. Bless be
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  Speaker 8: that autumn brown and sere. Blessed the day, and bless
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  Speaker 8: the year of his nativity. Blessed be the hospitals which
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  Speaker 8: rise resultant of thy enterprise, thy zeal and fervency. Blessed
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  Speaker 8: be the hunter saint of thine. Blessed the dear, and
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  Speaker 8: bless the sign between its antlers broad to us, thy daughters.
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  Speaker 8: Is it given to bless THEE in the name of
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  Speaker 8: Heaven and blessing thee bless God. Footnote. Saint Hubert the
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  Speaker 8: Apostle of Our Dens, a saint of the Roman Catholic Church,
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  Speaker 8: the matron of Huntsman. He was of a noble family
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  Speaker 8: of Aquitaine. While hunting in the force of Oar Dens,
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  Speaker 8: he had a vision of a stag with a shining
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  Speaker 8: crucifix between its antlers and heard a warning voice. He
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  Speaker 8: was converted into the church and eventually became Bishop of
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  Speaker 8: Mestrich and Liege. He worked many miracles and is said
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  Speaker 8: to have died in seven twenty seven or seven twenty
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  Speaker 8: nine Spotford's Cyclopaedia, Volume four, page four hundred seventy. In
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  Speaker 8: the poem, this recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: Suggested by a mountain eagle by Alfred Kastner King read
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  Speaker 5: for Libervouxton to work by our mapstone. I gazed at
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  Speaker 5: the azure hewed mountle of Heaven, the measureless depths of
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  Speaker 5: ethereal space. I gazed at the clouds so invisibly driven,
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  Speaker 5: and an eagle which wheeled with symmetrical grace. I gazed
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  Speaker 5: at that eagle majestically wheeling with dignity born of the
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  Speaker 5: free mountain air. I envied that bird with an envious
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  Speaker 5: feeling which springs from a heart that he shackled with care.
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  Speaker 5: I envied that eagle, which bowed to no master, but
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  Speaker 5: soared at his will through the ambient skies, defiant of
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  Speaker 5: danger and scorning disaster. He screamed at the cliffs, which
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  Speaker 5: re echoed his cries. I envied that bird on that
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  Speaker 5: fair summer morning, when nature lay decked with spontaneous art,
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  Speaker 5: as he circled with aspect defiant and scorning, and perched
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  Speaker 5: on a pinnacle's loftiest part, and scanning the scene with
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  Speaker 5: a stern indecision. He spread his dark wings with intuitive
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  Speaker 5: cries and sped till acute and inquisitive vision discerned but
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  Speaker 5: a movable speck in the skies. When the shades of
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  Speaker 5: the evening, so listless and dreary, descend on the valley,
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  Speaker 5: his wing never flags, as through the dark shadows he
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  Speaker 5: soars to his erie, which nestles among the impregnable cracks
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  Speaker 5: ah fame. Would I rise on thy feathery pinions, above
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  Speaker 5: the material cares of the day, and float over Earth's
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  Speaker 5: most enchanting dominions as clouds by the zephyrs are wafted away.
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  Speaker 5: End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: The Silvery san Juan by Alfred Casna King read for
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  Speaker 5: LibriVox dot Org by our mapstone. Wherever I wander, my
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  Speaker 5: spirit still dwells in the silvery san Juan, with its
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  Speaker 5: streamlets and dells, whose mountainous summits so rugged and high,
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  Speaker 5: with their pinnacles pierced the ethereal sky, where the daisy,
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  Speaker 5: the rose, and the sweet columbine blend their colors with
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  Speaker 5: those of the sober hued pine. Where the ceaseless erosions
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  Speaker 5: of measureless time have chiseled, the grotto and cannon sublime
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  Speaker 5: have sculptured the cliff, and the stern mountain wall have
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  Speaker 5: formed the bold turret, impressive and tall, have cut the
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  Speaker 5: deep gorge with its wonderful caves, sepulchral and gloomy, whose
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  Speaker 5: vast architraves support the stalactites, both pendant and white, which,
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  Speaker 5: with the starach knights beneath them, unite, where nestles of
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  Speaker 5: valley sequestered in grand worn out of the rock by
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  Speaker 5: the same tireless hand, surrounded by mountains majestic and gray,
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  Speaker 5: which smile from their heights on the town of Ray.
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  Speaker 5: Wherever I wander, my ears hear the sound of thy waters,
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  Speaker 5: which plunge with a turbulent bound, or the precipice, seething
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  Speaker 5: and laden with foam. My ears hear their music wherever
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  Speaker 5: I roam, where the cataracts rhapsody, joyous and light, enchants
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  Speaker 5: in the morning, and soothes in the night, Where blend
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  Speaker 5: the loud thunders, sonorous and deep with the sobs of
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  Speaker 5: the rain, as the black heavens weep, where the whispering
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  Speaker 5: zephyr and murmuring breeze unite with the soft, listless sigh
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  Speaker 5: of the trees. And where to the fancy the voices
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  Speaker 5: of air wailing tones of distress, or in shrieks of despair,
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: where mourneth the night wind with desolate breath, in accents
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  Speaker 5: suggestive of sorrow and death, as falls from the heavens,
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  Speaker 5: so fleecy and light the winter's immaculate mantle of white.
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  Speaker 5: Wherever I wander, these sounds greet my ears, and the
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  Speaker 5: silvery san Juan to my fancy appears. End of poem.
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  Speaker 5: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 7: As the shifting sands of the Desert by Alfred Castner
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  Speaker 7: King read for LibriVox dot Org by George Emerson. As
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  Speaker 7: the shifting sands of the desert are borne by the
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  Speaker 7: simoon's wrath, and in wanton and fleet confusion, are strown
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  Speaker 7: on its trackless path, So our lives with resistless fury,
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  Speaker 7: insensibly and unknown, with a restless vacillation, by the winds
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  Speaker 7: of fate are blown. But an all wise hand may
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  Speaker 7: have changed the sand for a purpose of his own,
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  Speaker 7: as the troubled in turbulent waters, as the waves of
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  Speaker 7: the angry man were respond with their undulations to the
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  Speaker 7: breath of the hurricane. So our lives on time's boundless
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  Speaker 7: ocean unwittingly toss and roll and unconsciously drift with the
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  Speaker 7: current which evades our assumed control. But a hand of
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  Speaker 7: love from the skies above may have guided us past
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  Speaker 7: a shoal ephemeral, mobile and fleeting are dolible paths. We
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  Speaker 7: tread and fade as the crimson sunset, when the heavens
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  Speaker 7: are tinged with red, as the gorgeously tinted rainbow retains
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  Speaker 7: not its very dyes. We change with the constant mutation
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  Speaker 7: of desert, of sea and skies, But the hand which
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  Speaker 7: made knows each transient shade which passes before the eyes.
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  Speaker 7: End of poem. This record is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 7: Mist by Alfred Cassner King read for librevox dot Org
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  Speaker 7: by George Emerson. Pity the child who never feels a
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  Speaker 7: mother's fond caress, that childish smile avoid conceals of aching loneliness.
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  Speaker 7: Pity the heart which loves in vain. What balm or
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  Speaker 7: mystic spell can soothe that bosom's secret pain the pain
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  Speaker 7: it may not tell. Pity those mist by Cupid's darts,
• 44:44
  Speaker 7: for twas ordained for such who love at random, but
• 44:49
  Speaker 7: whose hearts feel no responsive touch. End of poem. This
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  Speaker 7: recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: If I have lived before by Alfred Castner King read
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  Speaker 1: for LibriVox dot Org by Andrew Gaunce. If I have
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  Speaker 1: lived before, some evidence should that existence to the present bind,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Some innate inkling of experience should still imbue and permeate
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  Speaker 1: the mind, if we progressing pass from state to state,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: or retrograde as turns the wheel of fate. If I
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: have lived before, and could my eyes but view the
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: scenes wherein that life was spent, or even for an
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  Speaker 1: instant recognize the climes, conditions, and environment beloved by them
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  Speaker 1: in that prenatal span, though the past and future both
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  Speaker 1: be sealed to man. Or if perchance kind memory should
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  Speaker 1: ope her floodgates with fond recollection fraught twould then renew
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  Speaker 1: the dormant fires of hope, now smothered out by speculative thought.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Twould then rekindle faith within a breast where doubt is
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  Speaker 1: now the sole remaining guest. End of poem. This recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain. The Darker Side by Alfred
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  Speaker 1: Kastner King read for LibriVox dot Org by Andrew Gaunce.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: They say that all nature is smiling and gay, and
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  Speaker 1: the birds the most happy of all, But the sparrow,
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  Speaker 1: pursued by the sparrow hawk, savors more of the wormwood
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: and gall They say that all nature is smiling and gay,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: but the groan may dissemble the laugh. Even now from
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  Speaker 1: the meadow is wafted the sound of a bovine bewailing
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  Speaker 1: her calf. They say that all nature is smiling and gay,
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: but the moss often covers the rock. Every animal form
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: is beset by a foe, for the wolf always follows
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  Speaker 1: the flock for the animal holds all in fear, flesh
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  Speaker 1: as its just and legitimate prey. Every scream of the
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  Speaker 1: eagle a panic creates as the weaker things scamper away.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: They say that all nature is smiling and gay, But
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: the smiles are all needed to sweeten the struggle. We
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: see so incessantly waged to eat and avoid being eaten,
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  Speaker 1: and men, with their genial competitive ways, present no decided
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  Speaker 1: improvements for their personal gain. They will sacrifice all who
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  Speaker 1: may stand in the way of their movements. End of poem.
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  Speaker 1: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: The Miner by Alfred Kashner King read forlibrivotch dot org,
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  Speaker 5: biolum mapstone clink, clink, clink, the sum of the hammer
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  Speaker 5: and drill, the sound of the whistle so shrilling clear.
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  Speaker 5: He must leave the wife and the children deer in
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  Speaker 5: his cabbing upon the hill clink, clink, clink. But the
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  Speaker 5: arms that deliver the sturdy stroke ere the shift is done,
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  Speaker 5: may be crushed or broke, or the life may succumb
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  Speaker 5: to the gas and smoke which the underground caverns fill. Clink, clink, clink,
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  Speaker 5: the song of the hammer and drill. As he toils
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  Speaker 5: in the shaft in the stoup, or raise mid dangers
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  Speaker 5: which lurk but elude the gaze his nerves with no
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  Speaker 5: terror's thrill Clink clink, clink, For the heart of the
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  Speaker 5: miner is strong and brave, though the rocks may fall,
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  Speaker 5: and the shaft may cave and become his dungeon, if
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  Speaker 5: not his grave, he braves every thought of ill. Clink clink, clink,
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  Speaker 5: the song of the hammer and drill. But the heart
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  Speaker 5: which is beating in unison with the steady stroke ere
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  Speaker 5: the shift is done, may be cold and forever still
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  Speaker 5: clink clink, clink. He may reap the harvest of danger sowed.
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  Speaker 5: The whole which he drills may never load, for the
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  Speaker 5: powder may eat in his hand, explode to mangle, if
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  Speaker 5: not to kill. Clink clink, clink. The song of the
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  Speaker 5: hammer and drill, facing dangers more grim than the cannon's mouth,
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  Speaker 5: breathing poisons more foul than the swamps of the south
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  Speaker 5: in their tropical fens, distill clink, clink, clink. Thus the
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  Speaker 5: battle he fights for his daily bread. Thus our gold
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  Speaker 5: in our silver are iron and lead. Cost Us lives
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  Speaker 5: as true as our blood is red, and probably always
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  Speaker 5: will end of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 7: Life's under Current by Alfred kashnar King read for LibriVox
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  Speaker 7: dot Org by George Emerson. Within the precincts of a hospital,
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  Speaker 7: I wandered in a sympathetic mood, where, face to face
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  Speaker 7: with wormwood and with gall with wrecks of pain and
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  Speaker 7: stern vicissitude, the eye unused to human misery might view
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  Speaker 7: Life's undercurrent vividly. My gaze soon rested on the stricken
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  Speaker 7: form of one's succumbing to the fever's drouth, with throbbing brow,
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  Speaker 7: intolerably warm, with wasted lips and mute appealing mouth. And
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  Speaker 7: when I watched that prostrate figure there, I thought that
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  Speaker 7: fate must be the worst to bear. I next beheld
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  Speaker 7: a thin but patient face, aged by the constant twinge
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  Speaker 7: of hopeless pain, wheeled in an easy chair from place
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  Speaker 7: to place, a form which ne'er might stand erect. Again,
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  Speaker 7: I viewed that human ship breck in his chair, and
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  Speaker 7: thought a fate like that was worse to bear. Within
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  Speaker 7: her room, a beauteous maiden lay moaning in agony. No
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  Speaker 7: words express a cancer eating rapidly away her vital force.
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  Speaker 7: So foul and pitiless, And when I saw that face,
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  Speaker 7: so young and fair, I thought such anguish was the
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  Speaker 7: worst to bear. A helpless paralytic met my eyes, whose
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  Speaker 7: hands might never grasp a friendly hand, but hung distorted
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  Speaker 7: and of shrunken sighs, insensible to muscular command, his face
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  Speaker 7: an abject picture of despair. I thought a fate like
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  Speaker 7: that was worse to bear. With wasted form, amachiate and wan,
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  Speaker 7: a pale, consumptive cough, with labored breath, his sunken eyes
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  Speaker 7: and hectic flush upon his cheek foretold a sure but
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  Speaker 7: lingering death. I thought, whene'er I met his hollow stare,
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  Speaker 7: a wasting death like that was worse to bear. That day,
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  Speaker 7: with fetters obdurate and fast, with chain of summer, winter, spring,
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  Speaker 7: and fall, is bound into the dim receding past.
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  Speaker 2: Time.
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  Speaker 7: O'er my life is spread a somber pall. With sightless eyes.
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  Speaker 7: I grope and clutch the air. My lot is now
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  Speaker 7: the hardest lot to bear. End of poem. This recording
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  Speaker 7: is in the public domain. They cannot see the wreaths
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  Speaker 7: we place by Alfred castnar King read for LibriVox dot
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  Speaker 7: Org by George Emerson they cannot see the wreaths we
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  Speaker 7: place upon the silent beer. They cannot see the tear
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  Speaker 7: stained face, nor feel the scalding tear. And now can
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  Speaker 7: flowers or graven stone for wrongs done them in life?
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  Speaker 7: Atone better the flower that smooths the thorns on earthly
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  Speaker 7: pathway found than that which uselessly adorns the beer or
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  Speaker 7: silent mound. And neither tear nor floral token retracts the
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  Speaker 7: hasty word when spoken, Then strow the flowers ere life
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  Speaker 7: is fled, while yet their eyes discern why waste their
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  Speaker 7: fragrance on the dead, who no fond smile? Return the
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  Speaker 7: heaving breast with sorrow aches comfort the robbing heart which
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  Speaker 7: breaks end of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 7: Mother Alpha and Omega by Alfred Kasnar King, read for
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  Speaker 7: LibriVox dot Org by George Emerson. Mother Mother, The startled
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  Speaker 7: cry of childish fright rang through the silence of the night,
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  Speaker 7: as but the mother's fond caress could soothe its infantile distress.
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  Speaker 7: And the mother answered with loving stroke of her gentle hand,
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  Speaker 7: as she softly spoke, hush, hush, my child, that troubled cry.
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  Speaker 7: What evil can harm thee with Mother Nigh, Mother, Mother.
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  Speaker 7: Long years have passed, and the fevered brow of a
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  Speaker 7: bearded man she is stroking now as through delirium and pain.
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  Speaker 7: He cries as a little child again, and the mother
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  Speaker 7: answered with loving stroke of her careworn hand, as she
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  Speaker 7: softly spoke, Hush, hush, my child, that troubled cry? What
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  Speaker 7: evil can harm?
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  Speaker 1: Thee?
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  Speaker 7: With Mother? Nigh?
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  Speaker 8: Mother?
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  Speaker 5: Mother?
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  Speaker 7: Still time rolls on, and an old man stands trembling
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  Speaker 7: on life's declining sands. As memory bridges the flood of years.
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  Speaker 7: He cries as a child with childish tears, and memory
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  Speaker 7: answers with loving stroke of a vanished hand, and an
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  Speaker 7: echo spoke, Hush, hush, my child, that troubled cry? What
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  Speaker 7: evil can harm? Thee? With Mother Nigh? End of poem.
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  Speaker 7: This recording is in the public domain. Empty are the
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  Speaker 7: Mother's Arms by Alfred Kastner King read for lipovox dot
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  Speaker 7: Org by George Emerson. Ah, empty are the Mother's arms,
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  Speaker 7: which clasp a vanished form, a darling spared from life's
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  Speaker 7: alarms and safe from earthly storm. In absent reverie, she
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  Speaker 7: hears that voice, nor can forget. The fond delusion disappears
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  Speaker 7: her arms are empty yet end of poem. This recording
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  Speaker 7: is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 8: In de Ophides by Alfred Castor King read for Lebrevox
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  Speaker 8: dot Org by Lari Wilson. Almighty God, Supreme, most High,
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  Speaker 8: before Thy throne. In reverence, we kneel. We cannot realize
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  Speaker 8: Thine infinity beholding not we can Thy presence feel though
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  Speaker 8: veiled impenitibly, Thou dost reveal such evidence as clouds cannot conceal,
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  Speaker 8: acknowledged though unseen, almighty power. Within its secret depths, the
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  Speaker 8: bosom pays in pleasures or affliction's calmer hour, the heart's
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  Speaker 8: sincerest offering of praise. Intuitive unuttered prayers arise without the
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  Speaker 8: outstretched arms or reverently closed eyes. Down deep within the
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  Speaker 8: soul's mysterious seat, the voice of reason, an inherent sense,
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  Speaker 8: admits Thy sovereign power and doth entreat the guidance of
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  Speaker 8: a just omnipotence. Thus does the human essence e'er depend
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  Speaker 8: on that supreme eternal without end supreme mysterious power. What
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  Speaker 8: e'er thou be? Can e'er our mortal natures comprehend? This
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  Speaker 8: side the veil which shrouds futurity, thy, wisdom, power and love,
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  Speaker 8: the end of all conclusions reasoned or and ore we
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  Speaker 8: know thou dost exist? Can we know more? In the
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  Speaker 8: poem this recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Shall Love as the bridal wreath whither and die? By
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  Speaker 1: Alfred Kastner King read for LibriVox dot org by Andrew Grance,
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  Speaker 1: Shall Love as the bridal wreath whither and die? Or
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  Speaker 1: remain ever constant and sure, as the years of the
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  Speaker 1: future pass rapidly by, and the waves of adversity's tempest
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  Speaker 1: roll high, ever changeless and fervent. Endure, mistake not the
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  Speaker 1: fancy that lasts, but a day for the love which
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  Speaker 1: eternally thrives. That sentiment false is as prone to decay
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  Speaker 1: as the wreath is, to fade and to wither away,
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  Speaker 1: And like it it never revives. And of palm. This
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: Shall our memories live when the sod rolls above us
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  Speaker 5: by Alfred Kashna King read Philibrivatch dot org Yalam Matchstone.
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  Speaker 5: Shall our memories live when the sod rolls above us
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  Speaker 5: and marks our last home with a moldering heap. Shall
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 5: the voices of those who profess that they love us,
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  Speaker 5: ere mention our names as we dreamlessly sleep. Will their
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  Speaker 5: eyes ever dim at some fond recollection, or their hands
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  Speaker 5: ever plant a small flower or the breast? Or will
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  Speaker 5: they gaze with a sad circumspection at the tablets which
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  Speaker 5: tell of our last solemn rest. Ah Soon shall the
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  Speaker 5: hearts which our memories cherish forget as they strive with
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  Speaker 5: the cares of their own, And even the last dim
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  Speaker 5: remembrance shall perish as we peacefully slumber, unwept and unknown.
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  Speaker 5: But if our lives, though of transient duration, are filled
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  Speaker 5: with some work in humanity's name, some uplifting effort or
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  Speaker 5: self immolation, our memories shall live in the temples of fame.
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  Speaker 5: End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: A reverie by Alfred Castner King read for LibriVox dot
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  Speaker 1: Org by Andrew Gaunt's O Tomb of the Past or
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  Speaker 1: Buried Hopes lie in my visions. I see thy phantoms
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  Speaker 1: pass by, a form long departed before me appears a
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  Speaker 1: sweet voice, long silent again, greets my ears. Fond memory
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  Speaker 1: dwells on the things that have been, and my eyes
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  Speaker 1: calmly gaze on a long vanish'd scene, a scene such
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  Speaker 1: as memory stores deep in the breast, which only appears
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  Speaker 1: in a season of rest. Once More we wander her
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  Speaker 1: fair hand in mine, once more, her promise, all ever
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  Speaker 1: be thine. Once More, the parting, the shroud, and the pall,
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  Speaker 1: the sods hollow thump as they coffinward fall, the reverie ends.
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  Speaker 1: All the fancies have flown, and my sad, lonely heart
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  Speaker 1: now seems doubly alone as the ivy, whose tendrils reach
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  Speaker 1: longingly out, yet finds not an oak to entwine them
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  Speaker 1: about end of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Love's Plea by Alfred Castner King read for LibriVox dot
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  Speaker 1: Org by Andrew Gaunts. I love THEE, my darling, both
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  Speaker 1: now and forever. My heart feels the thraldom of Love's
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  Speaker 1: mystic spell tis fettered with shackles which nothing can sever
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  Speaker 1: to the heart which responds to its passionate swell. I
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  Speaker 1: love THEE, my darling, with love that is stronger than
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: all the fond ties which the heart holds enshrined, adversity,
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  Speaker 1: sorrow or pain can no longer detract from this heart.
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  Speaker 1: If with thine intertwined I love thee my darling, with
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  Speaker 1: sacred affection, which death onn'or the cycles of time shall efface,
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  Speaker 1: nor from my heart's mirror, erase thy reflection, nor tear
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  Speaker 1: thy fond heart from its fervent embrace. End of poem.
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  Speaker 1: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 8: Ashes to Ashes, dust to dust by Alfred Cassner King
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  Speaker 8: read for LibriVox dot Org by Lurie Wilson. Is there
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  Speaker 8: a death? The light of day at eventide shall fade
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  Speaker 8: away from out the sod's eternal gloom. The flowers in
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  Speaker 8: their season bloom, bud, bloom and fade, and soon the
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  Speaker 8: spot whereon they flourish knows them not blighted by chill,
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  Speaker 8: autumndal frost, Ashes to ashes, dust to dust? Is there
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  Speaker 8: a death? Pale forms of men to formless clay resolve
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  Speaker 8: again sarcophagus of graven stone, nor solitary grave, unknown, mausoleum
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  Speaker 8: or funeral urn. No answer to our cries return, nor
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  Speaker 8: silent lips disclose their trust? Ashes to ashes, dust to dust?
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 8: Is there a death? All forms of clay successively shall
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 8: pass away. But as the joyous days of spring witness
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 8: the glad awakening of nature's forces may not men in
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  Speaker 8: some due season rise again. Then why this calm inherent trust?
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 8: If ashes to ashes, dust to dust end a poem,
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  Speaker 8: This according is in the public domain. Despair by Alfred
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  Speaker 8: castnar King read for LibriVox dot Org by Lurie Wilson.
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  Speaker 8: Ill fares the heart when hope is fled, when vanishes
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 8: each prospect fair, when the last flickering ray has sped,
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  Speaker 8: and nought remains, but mute despair, when inky blackness death
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 8: enshroud the hopes. The heart, once held in store as
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  Speaker 8: some tall pine by great winds bowed, doth snap, And
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 8: when the tempests o'er its noble form, magnificent and proud,
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  Speaker 8: doth prostrate lie nor ever riseth more. Thus breaks the heart,
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  Speaker 8: which sees no hope. Before Ill fares the heart when
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  Speaker 8: hope is fled. That heart is as some ruin old
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  Speaker 8: with ancient arch and wall, or spread with moss and
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  Speaker 8: desolate lady mold, whose banquet hals, where once the sound
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  Speaker 8: of revelry rang unconfined, Now with the hoot of owls
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  Speaker 8: resound or echo back the mournful wind, in whose foul
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  Speaker 8: looks the gruesome bat is found. The heart a ruin
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  Speaker 8: is when unresigned, no hope before, and but regret behind
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 8: ill fares the heart. When hope is fled, that heart
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 8: to fate, unreconciled, though throbbing, is as truly dead, as
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  Speaker 8: though by foul decay defiled. That heart is as a
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  Speaker 8: grinning skull with smiling mockery and stare of eyeless sockets,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 8: or the whole of a shipwrecked vessel, bleached and bare, derelict, morbid, apathetic, dull,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 8: as drowning men who clutch the empty air, the heart
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  Speaker 8: goes down, which feels but blind despair in the poem.
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  Speaker 8: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 10: Hidden Sorrows by Alfred Kastner King, read for LibriVox dot
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  Speaker 10: Org by Christine Peterson Hidden Sorrows. For some, the river
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  Speaker 10: of life would seem free from shallow the reef or
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  Speaker 10: bar as they gently glide down the silvery stream with
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  Speaker 10: scarcely a ripple, a lurch or jar. But under the surface,
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  Speaker 10: calm and fair lurk the hidden snags and the secret care.
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  Speaker 10: The waters are deepest where still and clear, and the
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  Speaker 10: sternest anguish forbids a tear. For others, the pathway of
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  Speaker 10: life is strewn with many a thorn for each rose
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  Speaker 10: or a bud, and their journey or mountain or more
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  Speaker 10: and dew can be plainly tracked by footprints of blood.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 10: But deeper still lies the hidden smart of some secret
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  Speaker 10: sorrow which gnaws the heart and rankles under a surface
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  Speaker 10: clear for the sternest anguish forbids a tear. But when
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  Speaker 10: the journey's end we see at the bar of the
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  Speaker 10: judge of quick and dead, the cross which one bore
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  Speaker 10: silently may outweigh his of the blood stained tread. The
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  Speaker 10: cross unseen, and the cross of light may balance in
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  Speaker 10: that judge's sight, or the heart that is breaking, a
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  Speaker 10: smile may appear. For the sternest anguish forbids a tear.
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  Speaker 10: End of poem. This reading is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 7: Oh a beautiful thing is the Flower that fadeth by
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  Speaker 7: Alfred casnar King read for LibriVox dot Org by George Emerson.
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  Speaker 7: Oh a beautiful thing is the flower that fadeth, and
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 7: perishing smiles on the chill autumn wind, a sweet desolation,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 7: its ruin pervadeth, A fragrant remembrance still lingers behind. Oh
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  Speaker 7: a beautiful thing is the glad consummation of a life
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  Speaker 7: that is upright, untarnished and pure. That spirit, when freed
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  Speaker 7: from this Earth's animation, shall live as the heaven's eternal endure.
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  Speaker 7: End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 10: Smiles by Alfred Kastner King read for LibriVox dot Org
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  Speaker 10: by Christine Peterson. Smiles. There is the warm, congenial smile,
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  Speaker 10: benign and honest, too, free from deception, fraud and guile,
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  Speaker 10: the smile of friendship true. There is the smile most
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  Speaker 10: fair to see, which wreathes the modest glance of spotless
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  Speaker 10: maid in purity, the smile of innocence. There is the
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  Speaker 10: smile of woman's love, that potent siren spell which uplifts
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  Speaker 10: men to heaven above or lures them down to hell.
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  Speaker 10: There is the vain, derisive smile of cynical conceit, the
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  Speaker 10: drunken leer, the grimace vile of lives with crime replete.
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  Speaker 10: There is the smile of vacancy, expressionless we find an idiot,
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  Speaker 10: fel pysiognomy, the vacuum of a mind. There is a
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  Speaker 10: smile which, more than tears or language can express, the
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  Speaker 10: grim disguise which anguish wears the mask of dire distress.
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  Speaker 10: There is a smile of practiced art more false than
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  Speaker 10: treason's kiss. But penetrate that dual heart, and hear the
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  Speaker 10: serpent's hiss. A smile the visage shall embrace when Nature's
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  Speaker 10: cup is full. Behind the stern and frowning face there
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  Speaker 10: lies a grinning skull. End of poem. This recording is
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  Speaker 10: in the public domain.
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  Speaker 11: A request by Alfred Kastner King Red for LibriVox daw doorg.
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  Speaker 11: When close by my bed the death angel shall stand
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  Speaker 11: and deliver his summons at last, when my brow feels
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  Speaker 11: the chill of his cold clammy hand, and mortality struggles
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  Speaker 11: are past. When my pain throbbing temples with death sweat
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  Speaker 11: are cold, and the spirit its strivings shall cease, as
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  Speaker 11: with muscular shrug, it relaxes its hold, and the suffering
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  Speaker 11: clay is at peace. Ere my spirit shall plunge through
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  Speaker 11: the shadowy veil. My lips shall diswish have expressed that
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  Speaker 11: all which remains of mortality, frail in some face enclosure,
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  Speaker 11: may rest where disorganized. This pale form shall sustain the
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  Speaker 11: fragrant and beautiful flowers, and reproduce beauty again and again
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  Speaker 11: through Nature's grand organic powers and of poem. This recording
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  Speaker 11: is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 12: Battle Him by Alfred Kastner King read for Librevox dot
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  Speaker 12: org by Denise Ray. Almighty Power, who through the past
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  Speaker 12: our nation's course has safely led behold again the sky,
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  Speaker 12: or cast again is heard the martial tread our stay
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  Speaker 12: in each con tency, our Father's God. We turn to
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  Speaker 12: THEE for lo the bugle note of war is rafted
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  Speaker 12: from a southern strand. O Lord of battles, we implore
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  Speaker 12: the guidance of thy mighty hand. While as of yore,
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  Speaker 12: the hero draws his sword and freedom sacred cause. And
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  Speaker 12: when at last the oaken reef shall crown afresh the
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  Speaker 12: victor's brow, and peace the conquering sword, we chief be
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  Speaker 12: with us then, as well as now, our stay in
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  Speaker 12: each contingency, in peace or war, we turn to THEE.
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  Speaker 12: End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 12: The Nation's Peril by Alfred Castner King read for LibriVox
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  Speaker 12: dot org by Denise Ray. The Nation's peril ill fares
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  Speaker 12: the land to hasting ills, a prey where wealth accumulates
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  Speaker 12: and men decay. Goldsmith, I fear the palace of the rich,
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  Speaker 12: I fear the hovel of the poor. Though fortified by
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  Speaker 12: moat and ditch, the castle strong could not endure, nor
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  Speaker 12: can the squalid hovel be a source of strength. And
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  Speaker 12: those who cause this widening discrepancy infringe on God's eternal laws.
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  Speaker 12: The heritage of man, the earth was framed for homes,
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  Speaker 12: not vast estates a lowering scale of human worth each
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  Speaker 12: generation demonstrates. Nor can the mercenary sword e'er cross with
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  Speaker 12: that the freemen draws, nor oil upon the waters poured
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  Speaker 12: perpetrate an unjust cause. Eternal justice still prevail and stay
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  Speaker 12: This menace ere too late, ere sturdy manhood droop and
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  Speaker 12: fail the law immutable of fate. No foe can daunt
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  Speaker 12: the stalwart heart of him who guards that sacred ground
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  Speaker 12: where every hero owns a part, where each an ample
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  Speaker 12: home has found. No more shall battles lurid gleam the
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  Speaker 12: cloudless sky of peace obscure, nor blood be crimson, field
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  Speaker 12: or stream. No avarreans grind down the poor, but onward,
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  Speaker 12: Let thy progress be a pageant, beautiful and grand. May
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  Speaker 12: he whoe'er has guarded thee protect thee still my native land.
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  Speaker 12: End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 8: Echoes from Galilee by Alfred Castner King read for Lebrevox
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  Speaker 8: dot org by Larry Wilson. What means this gathering multitude
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  Speaker 8: upon thy shores of Galilee, as various as the billows
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  Speaker 8: rude that sweep thy ever restless sea, can but the
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  Speaker 8: mandate of a king so varied an assemblage to bring
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  Speaker 8: behold the noble, rich and great, from levite pharisee and
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 8: priest down to the lowest dregs of fate, from mightiest
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  Speaker 8: even to the least. Yes, in this motley throng we
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  Speaker 8: find the palsied, sick, mute, halt and blind. Is this
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 8: some grand affair of state, a coronation or display by
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 8: some vainglorious potentate? Or can this concourse mark the day
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 8: of some victorious hero's march homeward through the triumphal arch?
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 8: Or have they come to celebrate some sacred sasser little
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 8: rite by civic feast, to emulate some deed on history's
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  Speaker 8: pages bright? Or can this grand occasion be some battle's anniversary?
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  Speaker 8: But wherefore come the halt and blind? What comfort can
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  Speaker 8: the pain distressed in such a tumbult hope to find
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  Speaker 8: what is there here to offer rest to those whom
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  Speaker 8: adverse fate his hurled dismantled on a hostile world. Let
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  Speaker 8: us approach a form we see fairest beyond comparison. For
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  Speaker 8: such a heavenly purity from other eyes hath never shown,
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  Speaker 8: nor such a calm, majestic brow on earth, hath ne'er
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  Speaker 8: appeared till now drawn nearer lo a voice we hear resonant, soft, pathetic, sweet,
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 8: in ringing accents, calm and clear. He squazed the thousands
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  Speaker 8: at his feet with more than mortal eloquence or man's
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  Speaker 8: compassion in his glance. Ah strange that such a form
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  Speaker 8: should stand in raiment, soiled and travel stained. Yes, mark
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  Speaker 8: the contour of that hand, a hand by menial toil profaned?
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  Speaker 8: Can one from such a station reach all classes? By
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 8: sheer force of speech? Can eloquence from mortal tongue break
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  Speaker 8: through the barriers which divide the toiling and downtrodden throng
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  Speaker 8: from affluence and official pride? Then? How can yonder speaker
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  Speaker 8: hold an audience so manifold? He spake as never ore
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  Speaker 8: to before or since, with burning thought, imparable and metaphor.
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  Speaker 8: Each simple illustration taught some sacred truth, some truth which could,
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  Speaker 8: by sage or fool be understood with similes of common things.
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  Speaker 8: The lilies of the field, the salt which lost its
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  Speaker 8: savor gently brings a lesson from the common fault of
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 8: self admiring pharisee of ostentatious piety, And from the prostrate penitent,
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  Speaker 8: the publican who beat his breast remorsefully, his garment rent,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 8: and thus with tears his sin confessed Lord Lord, as
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  Speaker 8: sinner vile, am I be merciful, and hear my cry.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 8: And from that man, beset by thieves and left upon
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 8: the road to die, no aid or comfort he receives
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 8: from priest or levite. Passing by how the despised Samaritan
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 8: proved the true neighbor to that man. Yes, finish'd with
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 8: such fervency of gesture and similitude, such depths of love
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 8: and purity. His hearers marveled as they stood. Nor through
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 8: his discourse was there heard abusive, vain or idle word.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 8: Who may this wonder speaker be? Is he some judge
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 8: or orator, some one in high authority, physician, prince or conqueror?
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 8: Answer thou ever restless, see, who may this wondrous person
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 8: be with ecosoft the sea replies, this is a judge,
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 8: an orator, a judge beyond all judges, wise and eloquent
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  Speaker 8: as none before, a judge majestic, calm, serene, and yet
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 8: unhumble nazarene. He is a ruler whose command the myriads
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 8: of the skies obey, as in the hollow of his hand.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 8: He holds all human destiny, the tempest wild, concedes his will,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 8: and calms before his peace. Be still A great physician, too,
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  Speaker 8: is he whose word the leper purifies, the mute, converse
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 8: the blind one sea, at his command the dead arise.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 8: He cures the ravages of sin and makes the foulest
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 8: sinner clean. He is a prince, a prince whose power
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 8: knows neither limit nor degree, Whose glory not the passing
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 8: hour in our cycles of futurity, can augment, altar or decree. Prince.
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  Speaker 8: Is he the prince of peace? He is Earth's greatest conqueror,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 8: but conquers not with crimson sword. Love is the weapon
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  Speaker 8: of his war forgiveness and gentle word, but greatest of
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 8: all victories or the dark grave his banner flies in
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 8: the poem. This recording is in the public domain. Go
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 8: and Sin No More by Alfred kassnar King read for
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  Speaker 8: LibriVox dot org by Larry Wilson. When the poor erring
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 8: woman sought in tears the master's feet, her breast, with
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 8: deep contrition, fraught repentance, full complete, divine compassion filled his eyes,
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 8: he spake, says sacred lore, o erring heart forgiven, rise,
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 8: Go thou and sin no more. The tear of contrite,
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  Speaker 8: sorrow shed by penitence cast down, shall flash when solar
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 8: rays have fled in an eternal crown. That tears shall
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 8: scintillate and shine when comets cease to soar. If thou
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  Speaker 8: wouldst wear that gem divine, Go thou and sin no
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  Speaker 8: more in the poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 8: Gently Lead Me, Star Divine by Alfred castnar King read
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  Speaker 8: for Lebrevox dot org by Larry Wilson. Gently lead me Star, Divine,
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  Speaker 8: Lead with bright, unchanging ray, or my lowly pathway shine.
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  Speaker 8: I shall never lose my way, though uncertain, be my
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 8: tread pitfalls deep and mountains high safely. Shall my feet
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 8: be led by thy beacon in the sky long ago,
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 8: while journeying westward o'er the desert wild Saga sought a
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 8: promised king in the person of a child by thy
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 8: bright illuminings to that manger in the fold. Thou didst
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 8: lead those shepherd kings lead me, as thou lettest of
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  Speaker 8: old in Depoem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 8: Dying Hymn by Alfred Castner King read for Librevox dot
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  Speaker 8: Org by Larry Wilson. The hour glass speeds its final
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  Speaker 8: sands and splendor sinks the golden sun. So men must
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 8: yield to death's demands. When human life its course has run,
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 8: we view the ruins of the past. We stand surrounded
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 8: by decay. Our trenchant hours are speeding fast and ere
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 8: we think have passed away. Weep not nor mourn with
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 8: idle tear that hour inevitable, and sure we move our
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 8: sojourn finished here to nobler realms which shall endure. In
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 8: the poem, this recording is in the public domain. In
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  Speaker 8: bortem Meditarie by Alfred Castner King read for Lebrevox dot
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  Speaker 8: Org by Larry Wilson. Dying Thoughts as life's receding sunset
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 8: fades and night descends. I calmly watch the gathering shades
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 8: as darkness stealthily invades and daylight ends. Earth's span is
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  Speaker 8: drawing to its clothes with every breath. My pain racked
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 8: brain no respite knows, yet shrinks it from the grim
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 8: repose it feels in death. The curtain falls on life's
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 8: last seen. The end is neared. At last, I faced
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 8: Death's somber screen. The fleeting joys which intervene have disappear'd,
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 8: and as a panoramic scroll, the past unreels, a mocking
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 8: past beyond control. Though buried as a parchment roll, its
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 8: tale reveals I stand before the dread unknown yet solemn fact.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 8: I see the seeds of folly sown in wayward years,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 8: maturely grown, nor can retract my weaknesses rise to my sight,
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 8: And now too late, I fain would former actions write,
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 8: which years have buried in their flight, now seal'd by fate.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 8: My frailities and iniquities. I plainly see committed acts, accusive rise,
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 8: omitted duties, criticize in mockery. I feel I have offended
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 8: oft e'en at my best, have failed to guide my
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 8: corse aloft. Perhaps in trivial hour have scoffed with idle, jest,
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 8: prone to misgiving, prone to doubt, and frail from birth,
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 8: more light and frivolous than devout. With life's brief candle
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 8: flickering out, I speed from earth. Can grief excuse indifference
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 8: with groan or tear, can deep remorse and penitence or anguish,
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  Speaker 8: mitigate a fence with pang sincere ah tears can e'er
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  Speaker 8: unlock the past, which opens not, and what is done
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 8: is welded fast through all eternity, to last nor change
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  Speaker 8: one jot, whate'er may lie beyond the veil. I calmly
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  Speaker 8: face and sink, as grievous tears bewail my faults and imperfections.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 8: Frail in death's embrace, And as I think the matter
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 8: o'er pensive and sad while its shortcomings, I deplore the
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  Speaker 8: fruits which my existence bore were not all bad, all
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 8: which can rejoice or grieve. I shortly go, And now,
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 8: in life's declining eve, I wonder, hope, try to believe.
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  Speaker 8: Soon I shall know. My spirit flees as night in
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  Speaker 8: raps to its reward. The earth recedes, I feel it lapse.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 8: I sink as dissolution snaps the silver cord. O thou,
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  Speaker 8: whose presence I can feel each hour I live while
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 8: passing through death's stern ordeal, wilt thou thy mercy, still
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  Speaker 8: reveal and still forgive? In the poem. This recording is
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  Speaker 8: in the public domain.
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  Speaker 11: Deprive this strange and complex world by Alfred Kastner King
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  Speaker 11: Red for LibriVox dot org. Deprive this strange and complex
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  Speaker 11: world of all the charms of art, the private of
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  Speaker 11: those sweeter joys which music doth in part. But oh,
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  Speaker 11: preserve that smile which tells the secret of the heart.
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  Speaker 11: The world may lose its massive piles, which point their
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 11: spires above, may spare the tuneful nightingale and gently cooing dove.
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  Speaker 11: But woe betide it if it lose the sentiment of love.
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  Speaker 11: End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 8: The Legend of Saint Regimond by Alfred Kastner King read
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  Speaker 8: for librevox dot org by Larry Wilson. A regiment ere
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  Speaker 8: he became a saint, was much imbued with vulgar, earthly taint.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 8: Ere he renounced the honors of a knight and doffed
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  Speaker 8: his coat of mail and helmet bright or sober cassock
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  Speaker 8: and monastic hood, leaving the castle for the cloister roude,
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  Speaker 8: and changed the banquet sumptuous repast for frugal crusts and
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  Speaker 8: the ascetic fast, forsook his charger and equipments for the
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  Speaker 8: crucifix and sasserdoval war, while yet with valiant sword and
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  Speaker 8: emblazoned shield, he braved the dangers of the marshall field,
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  Speaker 8: or sought the antleard trophies of the chase in force
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  Speaker 8: and sequestered hunting place, or, tiring of the hunt's exciting sport,
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  Speaker 8: enjoyed the idle pleasures of the court, whiling away the
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  Speaker 8: time with games of chance, with music and the more
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  Speaker 8: voluptuous dance the hollow paths of vanity pursued, laughed Jesus, war, drank, danced,
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  Speaker 8: and even wood no tongue more prone to question wit
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  Speaker 8: nor chaste when time and place demanded it. His basal voice,
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  Speaker 8: both voluble and strong, excelled in was wastle mirth and
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  Speaker 8: ribald song. He swore with oaths most impious and and
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  Speaker 8: blessed ate much drank more on these lines did his best,
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  Speaker 8: caroused by day, caroused by candlelight, in fact, behaved like
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  Speaker 8: any other night, this medieval night. The grand legend Saith
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  Speaker 8: for months would scarcely draw a sober breath. But as
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  Speaker 8: his appetite grew more and more, drank each day worse
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  Speaker 8: than on the day before. Was drunk all night, all day,
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  Speaker 8: continued so indulged in every vice he chanced to know.
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  Speaker 8: But long debauch and riteous excess reduced their strongest vootaries
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  Speaker 8: to distress. When nature can the strain no longer stand,
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  Speaker 8: she chastens with a sure and irate hand. So when
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  Speaker 8: the day of reckoning had come, she smote with fever
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  Speaker 8: and delirium, this valiant knight, whom we have tried to
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  Speaker 8: paint a very slim foundation for a saint. The crisis reached,
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  Speaker 8: his fever stricken brain surrendered reason to excessive pain, nor
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  Speaker 8: moments respite. Comatose in kind relieved the raging furnace of
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  Speaker 8: his mind, and Gruesome's specters, awful and unreal through his
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 8: discorded vagaries, would steal. When last, his scorching temples sought
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  Speaker 8: to repose in hasty nap or intermittent doze, his eyes beheld,
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  Speaker 8: though starting from his head, a grisly figure leaning o'er
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  Speaker 8: his bed, with aspect foul beyond descriptive word as one
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  Speaker 8: for months in sepulcher, interred, restored again to animated breath,
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 8: a weird, composite type of life and death, with countenance
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  Speaker 8: most hideous and vile, leering with ghastly and unearthly smile,
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  Speaker 8: pointing at shriveled finger as in scorn of mockery and accusation.
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  Speaker 8: Born as he beheld in terror and surprised, this gruesome
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  Speaker 8: shape which mocked before his eyes, he could distinguish in
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  Speaker 8: its haughty mien a bearing something as his own had been,
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  Speaker 8: nor had its withered visage quite the look of vampire
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  Speaker 8: ghoul or evanescent spook. And as the apparition o'er him bent,
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  Speaker 8: he saw that every seam or lineament, contour, feature, prominence
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  Speaker 8: of bone, bore, all a striking semblance to his own.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 8: The horror stricken knight essayed to speak, but words responded
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  Speaker 8: tremulous and weak, and mustering his dissipated strength a sitting posture,
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  Speaker 8: he assumed at length, whate'er thou art, thou harbringer of gloom,
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  Speaker 8: thou fiend or ghoul fresh from the new made tomb,
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  Speaker 8: Thou vampire, diabolical and fell thoustygian shade or denizen of Hell?
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  Speaker 8: I charge thee thing of evil? Do confess, Why thou
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  Speaker 8: hast thus disturb'd my sore distress? Why hast thou burst
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  Speaker 8: my chambers bolted door where guest and bidden never trod before.
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  Speaker 8: Break this suspense so horrible, and still declare thy tidings,
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  Speaker 8: be they good or ill. Be thou from heaven or
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  Speaker 8: from the realms below. I charge THEE speak, be thou
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  Speaker 8: a friend or foe. Make thou thy silence ominous and deep. O.
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  Speaker 8: Hence pursue thy way and let me sleep. The grisly specter,
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  Speaker 8: still more ghastly groan surveyed with visage obdurate to stone,
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  Speaker 8: then smiled with grimace of derisive craft, and in a
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  Speaker 8: most repugnant manner, laughed. But all the knight discern'd with
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  Speaker 8: iron ear was his own maudlin laugh and drunken leer.
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  Speaker 8: Breathe thou thy mess, shrieked the frantic knight. Discharge thy purpose,
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  Speaker 8: though it blast and blight. I charge THEE speak by
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  Speaker 8: all that is most fair, by almost foul. I charge
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  Speaker 8: THEE to declare by my bright armor and my trusty sword.
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  Speaker 8: I charge thee speak by holy rood and word. He sank,
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  Speaker 8: exhausted in such pallid fright. The snowy sheets looked dark
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  Speaker 8: beside such white. The specter paused in silence for a while,
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  Speaker 8: then broke into a most repulsive smile, and answered in
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  Speaker 8: a weird and hollowed tone enough to freeze the marrow
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  Speaker 8: in the bone. Ay and thy blasted spirit's counterpart, a
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  Speaker 8: body fit for thy most evil heart. I am thy life,
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 8: its psychic image, sent to bear thee company till thou repent,
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  Speaker 8: dessaid for forty days. The specter stayed for forty days.
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  Speaker 8: The night incessant prayed with scourge, with vigil and ascetic rite,
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  Speaker 8: with fast, with grown remorseful and contrite. He cleansed his
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  Speaker 8: blackened spirit by degrees and purified it from its vanities.
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 8: And as he prayed, the Specter's gruesome scowl grew day
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  Speaker 8: by day less hideous and foul. As he waxed wholly,
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  Speaker 8: it became more bright, and after forty days, arrayed in white,
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  Speaker 8: it spread its spotless arms, devoid of taint, above this
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  Speaker 8: erstwhile night, and henceforth saint in benediction as he knelt
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  Speaker 8: in prayer, then vanished instantly to empty air. Such is
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 8: the tale embellished by the muse. Tis true or false?
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  Speaker 8: Believe it as you choose. Some folks except the story
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  Speaker 8: out and out, while some preferred to entertain a doubt.
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  Speaker 8: But if it be fictitious and unreal, tis but subscribed
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  Speaker 8: and sworn, and bears no seal. It points a moral,
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  Speaker 8: as the legend all if it conveys it twas not
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  Speaker 8: vainly told. For should I such an apparition, see, I
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 8: think twould almost make a monk of me in the poem.
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  Speaker 8: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: As The Indian by Alfred Kashner King read philibrivox dot
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  Speaker 5: org bay Alum mapstone Lo the poor Indian whose untutored
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  Speaker 5: mind sees God in the clouds and hears him in
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  Speaker 5: the wind. Pope within the wind, my untold ear, the
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 5: voice of Deity can hear, and in the fleeting cloud
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  Speaker 5: discern his movements vast and tacit. For in the universe
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  Speaker 5: I trace the wondrous grandeur of his face. I see
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  Speaker 5: him in each blade of grass, each towering peak and
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 5: mountain pats, each forest, river, lake, and fen reveals the
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  Speaker 5: God of worlds and men. His works of wisdom prove
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  Speaker 5: to me a wise, creative deity. End of poem. This
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  Speaker 5: recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 10: The Fragrant Perfume of the Flowers by Alfred Kastner King
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  Speaker 10: read for LibriVox dot org by Christine Peterson. The Fragrant
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  Speaker 10: Perfume of the Flowers The fragrant perfume of the flowers
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  Speaker 10: exuding in the summer hours in as the altar's incense
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  Speaker 10: rare decid emanated through the air, may never reach the
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  Speaker 10: azure skies, Yet can the earth aromatize? And so the
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  Speaker 10: voice of secret prayer, ascending on the wings of air,
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  Speaker 10: though it should reach no listening ear of deity inclined
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  Speaker 10: to hear, still soothes the anguish of the mind and
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  Speaker 10: leaves a tranquil peace behind. End of poem. This recording
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  Speaker 10: is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: An Answer by Alfred Kastner King read forlibrivokx dot org
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  Speaker 5: by Alummapstone. When passing years have streaked with frost, these
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  Speaker 5: tresses now as jet. When life's meridian is crossed and
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  Speaker 5: beauty's sun has set, When youth's last fleeting charm lost.
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  Speaker 5: Wilt thou be constant yet, nor time thy sentiment exhaust
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  Speaker 5: and cause thee to forget. If so, my answer, I
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  Speaker 5: confess shall be a calm decided yes, but otherwise a no.
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  Speaker 5: End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Fame by Alfred Kastner King read for LibriVox dot Org
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  Speaker 1: by Andrew Grance. There is a cliff no matter where, which,
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  Speaker 1: softened by the agencies of rain, exposure to the air,
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  Speaker 1: and alternating thaw and freeze, most readily admits the edge
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  Speaker 1: of chisel or the sharpened wedge. The travelers, while passing
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  Speaker 1: by within its shade, find welcome rest, and one of
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  Speaker 1: them mechanically, as is a custom in the West, upon
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  Speaker 1: its surface, stern and gray carved out his name and
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  Speaker 1: went his way. Though in artistic and uncouth, that effort
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: of a novice hand exemplifies a striking truth, and may
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  Speaker 1: times ravages withstand to be by future ages read when
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  Speaker 1: years and centuries have fled. So on life's mighty thoroughfare.
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  Speaker 1: The multitude of every class leave no inscriptions chiseled where
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  Speaker 1: their transient footsteps chanced to pass, and waft to each
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  Speaker 1: succeeding age. No echoes from their pilgrimage. Though many pass,
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: yet few record their names and characters sublime by grand achievement,
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  Speaker 1: work or word upon the monolith of time. But few
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  Speaker 1: inscribe a lasting name on the eternal cliffs of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: The First Storm by Alfred Castna King read for librovox
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  Speaker 2: dot org. By caveat the leafless branch and meadows sere,
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  Speaker 2: the dull and leaden skies join with the mournful wind
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  Speaker 2: and drear in dirges for the passing year, which unreturning
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 2: flies the night in starless gloom descends. Nor can the
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  Speaker 2: pale moonshine break through the clouds, whose veil extends in
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  Speaker 2: boundless form and darkly blends with the horizon's line. Fodden
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 2: nature in a playful mood in cover of the night rays,
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 2: the plain and forest roode the city and the solitude
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  Speaker 2: in robe of spotless white. End of poem. This recording
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  Speaker 2: is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: Thoughts by Alfred Kasner King read forlibrivox dot org. By
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  Speaker 5: a mapstone, I dug a grave when smiling April Day,
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  Speaker 5: a grave whose small proportions testified to empty arms and
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  Speaker 5: playthings put away to ears, which heard when only fancy cried.
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  Speaker 5: I wondered, as I shaped that little mound, if in
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  Speaker 5: my home such grief should e'er be found. I dug
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 5: a grave twas in the month of June, a grave
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  Speaker 5: for one who, at his zenith died, When on that mound,
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  Speaker 5: with floral tributes strewn, the tears drops fell of one
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  Speaker 5: but late his bride. I wondered, if upon my silent
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  Speaker 5: beer should rest the moist impression of a tear. I
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  Speaker 5: dug a grave by autumn's sober light, a grave of
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  Speaker 5: full dimensions, twas for one whose hair had chained its
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  Speaker 5: raven hue to white, whose course had finished with the
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  Speaker 5: setting sun. I wondered, as I toiled with pick and spade,
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  Speaker 5: where and by whom would my last home be made?
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  Speaker 5: End of poem. This recording is in the public domain
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  Speaker 5: from a Saxon legend by Alfred Kasna King read for
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  Speaker 5: Librevoux doorg by our mapstone within a veil in distant Saxony,
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  Speaker 5: in time uncertain, though it was long ago, there dwelt
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  Speaker 5: a woman most unhappily from borrowed trouble, and imagined woe.
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  Speaker 5: Hers was a husband, generous and kind. Her children three
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  Speaker 5: were not an uncouth mold. Hers was a thatch which
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  Speaker 5: mocked it rain and wind. Within her secret purse were
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  Speaker 5: coins of gold. The drought had ne'er descended on her field,
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  Speaker 5: nor had distemper sore distressed her kind. The vine had
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  Speaker 5: given its a custom yield, so that her casks were
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  Speaker 5: filled with ruddy wine. Her sheep and goats waxed, fat
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  Speaker 5: and ample fleece rewarded every harvest of the sheer. Her
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  Speaker 5: lambs all bleated in sequestered peace, nor prowling wolf occasion
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  Speaker 5: nightly fear withal She fretted, pined, and brooded, sore, harbored
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  Speaker 5: each slight vexation. Courtid grief shut out the smiling sunshine
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  Speaker 5: from her door, and magnified each care to bass. Relief
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  Speaker 5: still waxed her grievous burden more and more, till with
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  Speaker 5: a resolution rash blind. At dead of night, she fled
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  Speaker 5: her humble door, as if to leave her grievous load behind.
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  Speaker 5: She journeyed as the night wore slowly on, unmindful of
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  Speaker 5: the tuneful nightingale, till in due time her footsteps fell
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  Speaker 5: upon a hill, the demarkation of the vale. As Lot's wife,
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  Speaker 5: in her flight, could not refrain from viewing foul Gomorah's
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  Speaker 5: funeral pyre from one last glance across that ancient plain
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  Speaker 5: at guilty Sodom breathed in vengeful fire. So when this
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  Speaker 5: woman reached the summit's crest and turned her eyes in
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  Speaker 5: one last farewell, look the fruitful veil. They stretched in
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  Speaker 5: placid rest, and all was silent save the breeze and brook.
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 5: The moon impartial fullness, mild, serene, flooding the landscape with
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 5: her mellow light, illumined every old familiar scene, brought them
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 5: their associations to her sight. When lo, as if by
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  Speaker 5: touch of magic, wand on every roof of tile, of
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  Speaker 5: thatch or wood, as instantly as magic doth respond a
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  Speaker 5: cross of various size and form. There stood or homes
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  Speaker 5: unknown to frown or grievous word, or homes where laughter
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  Speaker 5: hit the silent wail, or homes where discontent was never heard.
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  Speaker 5: Huge crosses glistened in the moonlight, pale across or every
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  Speaker 5: habitation rose, or ducal palace, and the cottage small where
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  Speaker 5: slept the husbandman in deep repose, and low her cross
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  Speaker 5: was smallest of them all end of poem. This recording
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  Speaker 5: is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 13: Christmas Chimes by Alfred Casma King read forlipopox dot org
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  Speaker 13: by Elaine Conway, England. Once More, the merry Christmas bells
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  Speaker 13: are ringing fore and wide. Their chiming rhythmic chorus swells,
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  Speaker 13: while every brazen throat board tells a joyous Christmas Tide.
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  Speaker 13: What is the burden of your chime, ye, bowels of
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  Speaker 13: Christmas Tide? What tidings in your clangorous rhyme? What message
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  Speaker 13: would your tongues sublime to human hearts confide? A chime
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  Speaker 13: is of Salvation's plan, and every Christmas Tide since Christmas
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  Speaker 13: bells to chime began with cold Heaven's gift to man,
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  Speaker 13: a savior crucified and of poem is recording is in
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  Speaker 13: the public domain. The Unknowable by Alfred Cassna King read
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  Speaker 13: for Libofox dot orb by Elaying Conway, England. Oh Sun
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  Speaker 13: resplendent in the smiling morn, As thou dost view the
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  Speaker 13: wastes furthan sky, canst theu behold the realms of the unborn?
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  Speaker 13: Canst their behold the realms of those who die whet
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  Speaker 13: wells the spirit ere its mortal birth ere yet it
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  Speaker 13: suffereth the pain and sorrow incident to earth. Where after
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  Speaker 13: death the sun gave answer with refulgent glow, Child of
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  Speaker 13: a fleeting hour, Thou, who must die to know? Canst
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  Speaker 13: tell thou old canopy of space, bewildering and boundless to
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  Speaker 13: the eyes, knowest thou the unborn spirit's dwelling place. Knowest
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  Speaker 13: thou the distant regions of the skies by rest, the
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  Speaker 13: spirits freed from mundane strife, from mortal grief and care.
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  Speaker 13: Knowest thou the secret of the future life. Canst thou
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  Speaker 13: tell where from space infinite echoed the reply, Child of
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  Speaker 13: a transient day, Thou too, to know?
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  Speaker 11: Must die, Ye.
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  Speaker 13: Winds who blow and cleave the formless skies, Ye, winds
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  Speaker 13: who blow with desolating breath. Can ye reveal prenatal mysteries?
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  Speaker 13: And can ye so the mystery of death? Within thy
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  Speaker 13: ambient and viewless folds. Imprisoned in the air, may not
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  Speaker 13: the spirits wait their earthly molds? Then tell ye where
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  Speaker 13: the answer came? Invisible and low frail, child of earthly clay,
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  Speaker 13: Thou you must die to know what are your tidings,
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  Speaker 13: Oh ye, rating seas, Do your waves wash the islands
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  Speaker 13: of the blessed, or view the gardens of hesperides. Know
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  Speaker 13: you the unborn spirits place of rest? And do your
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 13: waters lay that unknown shore? And when the night is gone,
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  Speaker 13: shall the freed spirit, tired and faint no more behold
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  Speaker 13: the dawn? The sad sea murmured as its waves rolled herd,
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  Speaker 13: as all those gone before, Thou too to know, must
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  Speaker 13: I end of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 13: The Suicide by Alfred Karsna King read forlibovots dot Org
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  Speaker 13: by Elaine Conway, England. What anguish rankled neath that silent breast,
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 13: What spectral figures marked those staring eyes, lowering them to
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 13: stagg in mysteries? What overpans sense of grief distressed? What
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  Speaker 13: desperation nerved that rigid hand to pull the trigger with
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  Speaker 13: such deadly aim, What deep remorse or terror overcame the
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  Speaker 13: dread inherent of death's shadowy Strand perhaps the hand of
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  Speaker 13: unrelenting fate fell with such tragic pressure that the mind,
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  Speaker 13: in frenzy, uncontrollable and blind, sought but the darkness, black
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 13: and desolate. Perhaps twas some misfortune, stunning blight, perhaps unmerited,
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  Speaker 13: the deep disgrace, or vision of a wronged, accusing face
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  Speaker 13: pictured indelibly before the sight, Perhaps the gnawing of some
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  Speaker 13: secret sin, some aberration fraught with morbid gloom, a buried hope,
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  Speaker 13: which ever burst its tomb, despondency, disaster, or shagrin. That
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  Speaker 13: heart which throbbed in pain and discontent, is silent as
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  Speaker 13: the grave for which it yearned. That brain, which wants
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  Speaker 13: with proud ambition burned, now oozes through the bullet's ghastly rent.
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  Speaker 13: Those eyes transfixed with such a gruesome stare once beamed
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  Speaker 13: with laughter, innocent and bright. The morning gave no pressage
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 13: of the night. A smile may be the prelude of despair.
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  Speaker 13: Whate'er his secret, it remains untold for why to human
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  Speaker 13: anguish add one groan is grief, the deeper grief, because
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  Speaker 13: unknown to let the grave his form and burden hold
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  Speaker 13: Ye who have felt no crushing weight of care from blame,
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  Speaker 13: profuse in charity refrain. Some deaths of sorrow overwhelmed the brain,
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 13: some loads too great for human strength to bear, and
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  Speaker 13: a poem. This recording is in the public domain. I
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  Speaker 13: think when I stand in the presence of death by
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  Speaker 13: Alfred Carsna King read for librovooks dot org by Elaine Conway, England.
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  Speaker 13: I think, when I stand in the presence of death,
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  Speaker 13: how futile is earthy endeavor? If it be with the
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  Speaker 13: flight of the last labored breath, the tongue has been
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  Speaker 13: silenced forever, for no message is flashed from the lustreless
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  Speaker 13: eyes when closed, so languid and weary, and no voice
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  Speaker 13: from the darkness, we echoes our cries in response to
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 13: the agonized query. We gaze at the solemn, mysterious shroud
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  Speaker 13: with a vague and insatiate yearning, and perceive but the
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  Speaker 13: somber exterior cloud with our vision of no discerning, not
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  Speaker 13: a whispering sound, not a glimmer of light from that
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  Speaker 13: shadowy strand uncertain, but he who ordained the day and night.
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  Speaker 13: Framed also Death's silent curtain and a poem. This recording
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  Speaker 13: is in the public domain. Hope by Alfred Karsna King
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  Speaker 13: read for a libovox dot org by A. Laying Conway, England.
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  Speaker 13: Hope is the shadowy essence of a wish, a fond desire,
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  Speaker 13: which floats before our eyes with lurid aberration, feverish, we
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  Speaker 13: clutch the shadow which elus flies. Though at our grasp
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 13: the mocking fancy flees. Hope still pursues and soothes realities.
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  Speaker 13: Hope has a mirage on the desert. Waste lures the
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  Speaker 13: lost traveler by a vision fare of gushing fountains which
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  Speaker 13: he may not taste.
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  Speaker 1: Of.
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  Speaker 13: Streamlets call depicted on the air. With tongue outstretched and parched.
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  Speaker 13: He onward speeds, but as he moves the phantom scene recedes.
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  Speaker 13: In the foul dungeon or the narrow cell. The prisoner
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  Speaker 13: doth pace his lonely beat, and as he treads, his
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  Speaker 13: shackles clank a knell responsive to each movement of his feet.
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  Speaker 13: Yet through his grated window he discerns the star of Hope,
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 13: which ever brightly burns. A noble ship, her ponderous anchor weighs,
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  Speaker 13: glides from the harbor and is lost to sight. A
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 13: young wife waves farewell, as many days in passing turn
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  Speaker 13: her golden tresses to white. She scans the horizon through
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  Speaker 13: a mist of tears, hopes for that vanished sail which
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  Speaker 13: ne'er appears a slave in aid, and climb remote chain
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  Speaker 13: to his seat, unwilling plies the awe before his eyes.
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  Speaker 13: Fond dreams of freedom float. He hopes omit. The battles
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  Speaker 13: crash and roll, and as the waves the imprisoned wretches drown.
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  Speaker 13: Hopes as his fetters draw him swiftly down a mighty host.
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  Speaker 13: In force of arms, we see we march invasive, cross
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  Speaker 13: a boundary line. At its approach, no freeman turn and flee,
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  Speaker 13: each with his life defense his family shrine. As burning
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  Speaker 13: homes illuminate the sky with ghastly light. They hope and
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  Speaker 13: fight and die beside the bed where rests the pallid
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  Speaker 13: form of a loved one, stricken with a fever's breath.
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  Speaker 13: In'n when the loving hands no longer warm, pretend the
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  Speaker 13: pure and swift approach of death. Hope holds the spirit
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  Speaker 13: in its house of clay, and with that spirit only
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  Speaker 13: saws away the guilty wretch for murder, doomed to die.
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  Speaker 13: Hope in his dungeon as the death watch paced, Hope
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  Speaker 13: as the death cap filled his evil eye. Hope as
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  Speaker 13: the noose around his neck was placed, Hoped as the
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  Speaker 13: chaplain read his final prayer. Hoped as he struggled in
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  Speaker 13: the viewless air in the glad sunshine of life's vernal spring,
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  Speaker 13: Hope buoys the spirit with expectancy. Hope with her dulcet
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  Speaker 13: voice and fluttering wing sings of life's goal with siren harmony.
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  Speaker 13: When silvered temples tell that life declines, that goal, though
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  Speaker 13: yet unreach'd, still brightly shines yes, as through failure and
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  Speaker 13: visitude we sail along with many an adverse wind, Hope
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  Speaker 13: plans her beacon in the tempest rude and leads with
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  Speaker 13: generous radiance. Unconfined, and when the yawning grave perceives its prey,
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  Speaker 13: Hope speeds the spirit on its astral way. And a poem.
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  Speaker 13: This recording is in the public domain by Alfred Karsna King,
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  Speaker 13: read forlibovots dot Org by Elaine Conway, England. An apostrophe
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  Speaker 13: to the Moon, Oh, silvery Moon, fair mistress of the night,
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  Speaker 13: Thou mellow ever vacillating orb How many eons of unmeasured
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  Speaker 13: time hast thou observant from thy astral poise, thy ever
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  Speaker 13: changing station in the skies, beheld the wastes of Earth,
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  Speaker 13: of air and space, ruling the waters and the somber night.
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  Speaker 13: Pale Queen of night, fair coquette of the skies, Thou
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  Speaker 13: who with fickle, sweet inconsistency, receives the smile from the
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  Speaker 13: admiring sun and straight transmits it to the sordid earth.
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  Speaker 13: How many cycles of the silent past hast thou beheld
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  Speaker 13: the rise and fall of man, his proud ascendancy and
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  Speaker 13: swift decline, his zenith, and his pitiful decay. Ere he
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  Speaker 13: emerged from out the dismal cave, his habitation crude and primitive. Ere,
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  Speaker 13: Yet the forest trembled at his stroke. Ere his indenting
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  Speaker 13: chisel cleaved the stones and framed the first crude human domicile.
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 13: As time rolled on and human skill advanced by almost
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 13: imperceptible degrees of slow experimental tutor rich and the nobler,
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  Speaker 13: more artistic plane, he hewed the stones in form of ornament,
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  Speaker 13: sculptured device, of various design, embellishment of cunning symmetry, Man's
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  Speaker 13: first attempt to scale the realms of art. Thou hast
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  Speaker 13: held him on his suppliant neel, engaged in worship, audible
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  Speaker 13: or mute, invoking Thy protection and Thy aid, their gracious
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  Speaker 13: favor and be attitude, with arms outstretched in reverential awe
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  Speaker 13: propitiating thee with fervent prayer for the remission of the
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  Speaker 13: baleful stroke. The hast be held his superstitious fear, had
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  Speaker 13: heard his curses and his solemn prayers. As their dark
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  Speaker 13: form eclipsed the smiling sun. Thou hast beheld him in fashion,
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  Speaker 13: and adorn the gorgeous altar and the totem pole with
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  Speaker 13: fervent zeal and blind simplicity from base materials of wood
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  Speaker 13: or stone, carve out to God, then kneel and worship it.
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  Speaker 13: Thou too, hast heard the slave whip's poignant crack, the
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  Speaker 13: sound of avarice in turpitude, as hands unwilling plied their
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  Speaker 13: arduous task creating monuments to iron will, human injustice, greed,
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  Speaker 13: and servitude. Thou hast be held in shape the pyramids,
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  Speaker 13: keep up the mound, and build the massive wall, create
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  Speaker 13: the castle and the towering spire, the ponderous stone and
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  Speaker 13: stately edifice on thy observant orbit in the skies. Didst
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  Speaker 13: thou behold that sacrilegious her which reared its massive form
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  Speaker 13: on Babbel's plane, built by misguided and presumptuous men in vain,
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  Speaker 13: an ineffectual attempt to scale the heavens surreptitiously ear the
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  Speaker 13: completion of the impious pile. Thou mayst have heard, with
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  Speaker 13: silent nonchalance, that strange catastrophe of human speech, that dire
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  Speaker 13: confusion of the languages, confounding all the tongues and dialects
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  Speaker 13: to unknown chaos of peculiar sounds, changing the conversation of
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  Speaker 13: the day to accents strange and unintelligible, unlike the common
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  Speaker 13: and accepted terms, to tones mysterious and unnatural, conglomerated forms
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  Speaker 13: of utterance which bore no semblance to the human voice.
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  Speaker 13: Some rent the air with unaccustomed words, striving in desperation
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  Speaker 13: to converse with ears which heard but could not understand.
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  Speaker 13: Some cursed with oaths unknown to all but them, while
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 13: some essayed to frame the words of prayer or to
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  Speaker 13: articulate the stern command. And one in most supreme authority
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  Speaker 13: declaimed a ponderous regal ordinance, but heard a sea of
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  Speaker 13: unfamiliar sounds, confused and desultory turbulence, and dissonance of harsh,
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 13: discordant tones instead of due attention and applause. Nor were
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  Speaker 13: his words and usual forms of speech respected by the
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  Speaker 13: idle wandering craft which lately comprehended and obeyed. Workmen addressed
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  Speaker 13: each other, but conveyed no sense of meaning in their jargonings,
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  Speaker 13: nor had cognisance from the stammered tones answered in turn
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  Speaker 13: in verbal nothingness. The crabbed cynic might no longer rail,
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  Speaker 13: nor those of sober countenance discourse in melancholy and foreboding strains,
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  Speaker 13: nor light and frivolous sons of levity on others perpetrate
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 13: the humorous jest. Fathers attempted to correct their sons, who,
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 13: listening with filial reverence, heard but unknown and strange garrulity.
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 13: Some shrank in terror as they years discerned their own
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  Speaker 13: distorted efforts to converse. Some ran in an aimless frenzy
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  Speaker 13: to and fro, falling upon the earth with frantic cries.
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 13: Some stood in gaping wonder, nor perceived the dire calamity
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 13: which bound them all in one unbroken chain of misery.
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 13: Some beat their breasts in paroxysmal woe. Some wore the
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 13: driveling look of idiocy. Some lost their reason and serenely smiled.
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 13: Some storted with features imperturbitable, finding no tear nor vent
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 13: for their distress. Some groaned, some treat some wept in
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  Speaker 13: their despair, relaxing all attempts at vocal speech. Some recognized
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  Speaker 13: the face but not the voice, of some familiar friend,
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  Speaker 13: and grasped the hand, spoke with the eyes. When words
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 13: no longer served, didst thou behold that temple which arose
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 13: on a mount Mariah's slope, the proud result of the
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 13: endeavors of a noble race, whose tireless energy and wondrous
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 13: skill in architecture and the various arts were famed throughout
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 13: the world, whose nimble hands carved out the pillar and
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 13: the pedestal, the column polished and cylindrical, the slab and
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  Speaker 13: ornamented architrave from harry and marble, of unblemished hue, the
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 13: stately cedars from the sloping sides. A proud but long
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 13: denuded Lebanon erected that superb and marvelous pil His wondrous
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 13: grandeur and imposing form, correct proportions and true symmetry, and
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 13: a perfect uniformity of shape, beauty of contour and embellishment,
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  Speaker 13: splendor of finish and magnificence excelled the proudest edifice of Earth,
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 13: A fitting tribute to the deity. Thou hast behold the
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 13: triumphs of his skill, touched by the desolating hand of time, crumble, disintegrate,
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 13: and pass away, resolved to pristine particles of dust. His
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 13: strongest castle, bold and insolent, of warlike aspect and defiant mien,
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 13: with wall and rampart, unassailable, impregnable to the assaults of man,
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 13: surrender at the mold's insidious tread. Thou hast beheld his
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 13: palace and his most exalted courts, bestrewn with fragments of
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 13: the peristyle, the broken column, slab and monolith o'erhung with
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 13: pendent moss and slimy mold. His dismal haunts and gloomy
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 13: apertures become the habitation of the bat, the hissing serpent,
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 13: and the scorpion, the basking lizard, dull and indolent, and
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 13: forms of reptile, foul and venomous. The throne where ruled
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 13: the king with iron sway, is vacant, as the empty
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 13: wastes affair is ruled by desolation and decay. No more
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 13: the sceptred voice in stern command rings through its halls,
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 13: nor can the dazzling flash of the tiara and the diadem,
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 13: the ensign and insignia of power, the emblazoned crest and
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 13: jeweled coat of arms, or proud escuchion of the illustrious name.
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 13: Excite with envy or inspire with fear. The boisterous carousel
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 13: and the sound of wassail, mirth, inebriate and loud. At midnight,
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 13: revelie is hushed and still. Time shifts the scenes. The
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 13: haughty prince and the most abject slave, who cowered and
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 13: trembled neath his austere glance, The fawning and ignoble sycophant,
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 13: the courtier and the basest serf have met on equal terms.
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 13: Beneath the silent dust from thy celestial minions. Thou hast
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 13: seen his prioritiest temple sink into decay, grim desolation, and despuetude.
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 13: The silent hush succeed the plaintive hymn. The anthem ceased
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 13: to swell in rhythmic praise or vaulted dome. We echo
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 13: with the sound pipe of organ, harp and dulcima. The
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 13: voice of sacerdotal eloquence become a silent as the unborn
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 13: thought the fragrant perfume of the frankincense, the scent of
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 13: swinging censor and of muhr, supplanted by foul odors of decay,
• 2:15:14
  Speaker 13: sacred flame extinguished and forgot is, of votaries and congregations fled,
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 13: the forms who ministered and forms who knelt, the burnished
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 13: altar and the hoary priest, commingling their atoms in the dust.
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 13: Thou too, hast heard the clash of hostile arms, the
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 13: blast of trumpet and the marshal tread, the nigh of charger,
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 13: anxious for the fray, the din and the confusion of
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 13: the fight. The noise and turmoil of contending hosts, the
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 13: crunch of breaking bones and shrieks of pain, the angry
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 13: challenge and defiant taunt, the cries of rage and curses
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 13: of despair, The dying groan and gnash of clenched teeth,
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 13: the plea for mercy with uplifted arms as through the
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 13: bosom plunged the ruthless steel, the clank of shackles, and
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 13: the captive groan as marched the vanquid forth to servitude,
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 13: to ceaseless toil, rewarded by the scourge, to stand within
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  Speaker 13: the slave marts, and endure the taunts and bear the
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 13: chains of slavery. Didst Thou look down with mutual radiance
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 13: on that incursion from the Scythian plane, a surging multitude
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 13: beyond the power of mental computation, and which seemed a
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 13: seething massless spears and shapes of war, a sea of
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 13: bellicose barbarity, overwhelming helpless and ill fated tire with a
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 13: resistless deluge of the sword. Or when that vast and
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 13: uncomputed horde swept westward from the steps of Tartary, with
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 13: stern Attila riding at its head, leaving in ruthless, mongol
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 13: truculence awake, both red and blackened by the torch, the
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 13: skirch perhaps of good, perhaps of hell. Didst Thou not flinch?
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 13: Went toward Christian west, the foul invasion of the Saracen
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 13: headed its course with crimson scimitar, supplanting the mild precepts
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 13: of the Cross with those of lust, of hate and bigotry.
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 13: Didst Thou not weep when proud Atlantis sunk beneath the
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 13: surging and engulfing ways. The aftermath of Earth'sma's tragic shock
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 13: were when the ark upon that greatest flood, which from
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 13: the black and pregnant heavens fell for forty days and
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 13: forty weary nights above the ruins of a deluged world
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 13: floated in safety with its living freight. Didst Thou look
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 13: down in idle apathy, with grim vesuvius from his dolment
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 13: rest awoke in molten fury, and o'er came with liquid
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 13: flood and scoriaceous hail. The sleeping cities which beneath him
• 2:18:50
  Speaker 13: lay in tearring, with such weary burial, that neither remnant
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 13: nor inhabitant escaped from that Both grave and funeral power,
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 13: nor vestige of their proud magnificence, rose from the scene
• 2:19:07
  Speaker 13: with charred and blackened form, and rolling centuries in passing
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 13: left but dim remembrance in the minds of men. Didst Thou,
• 2:19:19
  Speaker 13: in age more ancient and remote, gaze from thy poice,
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  Speaker 13: with cold complacency upon the guilty cities of the plain
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 13: surcharged with lust and the extremes of sin which wholly
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 13: writ of us, where neath the share of well deserved
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 13: combustion from the skies they sunk in conflagration with their
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 13: vice and perishing to ages yet to come, bequeathed a
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 13: foul and blasted heritage, and infamous and execrated name. Art
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 13: thou to human anguish, so inured that thou hast neither
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 13: sentiment of grief nor sense of pity for terelestrial ills.
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 13: Can agonizing and heartrending scenes relax thy obdurate and placid
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 13: face to semblance of emotion. Can man's woes excite thy
• 2:20:21
  Speaker 13: tranquil immobility to the pathetic look of tenderness, or touch
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 13: thy bosom's calm indifference with profuse throbs of sympathetic ruth.
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 13: Canst thou, unmoved, behold the widow's tears of those of
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 13: orphaned childish innocence, or those with wandering infant eyes have
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 13: shed on unresponsive breasts, which never more throw with maternal
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 13: warmth and suckle them. Canst thou, with cold and sympathizing
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 13: light illuminate the ruined maids despair without the echo of
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 13: a lunar groom. Hast thou no pang of sorrow or
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 13: regret for guilty man, nor tear for his distress? Or
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 13: are the tides within thy moist control the copious weepings
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 13: of thy mellow lids, thy sea of teardrops shed for
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 13: human woes. Didst thou behold when that most favored star,
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 13: transcending in refulgence all the orbs of boundless and bejeweled firmament,
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 13: with flush of overwhelming brilliancy, plunged through the wandering heavens,
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 13: whose pale spheres, in contrast, dimmed to insignificance, gliding through
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 13: the twinkling rounds of space, burst with such splendor as
• 2:21:57
  Speaker 13: the envious stars had ever witnessed since the heavens stood
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 13: halting in glory. O'er Jida's plain, halted and burned in
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 13: stellar reverence. Above a fold were wrapped in swaddling clothes,
• 2:22:15
  Speaker 13: a new born infant in a main delay, in humble
• 2:22:20
  Speaker 13: contrast to the throne of light, he left to tread
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 13: the thorny paths of Earth in undefiled and stainless innocence,
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 13: which Earth, with all her foul iniquities, might never tarnish
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 13: nor pollute with sin. Perhaps upon that stage Triumvirate, which
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 13: journeyed from the famed and affulent East in regal pomp
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 13: and rich munificence, delay their costly presence at his feet
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 13: and worship at that newborn infant shrine, tho sheddest thy
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 13: mellow rays and lit the way oh deserts to the
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 13: hills of Bethlehem, dividing honors with that Prince of Stars.
• 2:23:10
  Speaker 13: Wheret there a witness on that self seine night, with
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 13: humble shepherds on Judea's hills watching their flocks with all
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 13: attentive care, be held a monted grandeur in the skies.
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 13: The ordinary stars were glittering in unaccustomed glory, and the
• 2:23:32
  Speaker 13: orbs which twinkle in that pale celestial train which cleaves
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 13: in twain the ambient universe had changed their milky hue
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 13: to that of gold. But all the forms of stellar
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 13: brilliancy made way for that most bright and illuminous, which
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 13: glowed with holy radiance, which might not emanate from aught,
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 13: but sacred style, dispensing so serene magnificence that in the
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 13: admiring heavens stood abashed at such a sight, that's savoring
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 13: more of blessing than of curse, small marvel. Twas their
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 13: enlightened minds were seized with sudden and peculiar fear, so
• 2:24:21
  Speaker 13: that their trembling knees together smoked, and as they stood
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 13: in awe, struck trepidation and alarm the heavens as the
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 13: bifurcated door of some familiar hospitable tent parted their gorgeous
• 2:24:37
  Speaker 13: curtains and disclosed a multitude of the celestial host, numerous
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 13: beyond all efforts to compute, solemn of countenance, yet beautiful
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 13: beyond the comprehension of the eye surgeon. In such immaculaterray
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 13: of various raiment, as a stainless white snows with countless
• 2:25:02
  Speaker 13: sentries have placed on rugged arraw rats. Tremendous heights were
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 13: blended in an essence. Then for a moment's time, the
• 2:25:14
  Speaker 13: heavens were silent, as those forms were fair. Then instantly
• 2:25:19
  Speaker 13: throughout the realms of light was heard a crash and
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 13: sacred unison, as all the trumpets and the harps of heaven,
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 13: and all the varied instruments of Earth had burst in
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 13: one grand detonating cord. Now rose the quavering vibratory tones
• 2:25:40
  Speaker 13: of flageolette and solitary red. Now as a blending of
• 2:25:45
  Speaker 13: all instruments in echoing harmonics sweet and low, in soft
• 2:25:51
  Speaker 13: reverberating resonance, the voice of cornet and sonorous horn blent
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 13: with the water accents of the flute and chime of
• 2:26:03
  Speaker 13: mellow bells unknown to earth. Pain of dulcimer and harpsicled
• 2:26:10
  Speaker 13: in combination of concordant tone, melting the stars with dulcet symphony,
• 2:26:18
  Speaker 13: but sweeter than those instruments of joy tuned by angelic
• 2:26:23
  Speaker 13: fingers grows. The strains of vocal concord and malefluence are
• 2:26:30
  Speaker 13: swelled in chorus, those seraphic throats in falling cadants and
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 13: ecstatic flight, surpassing Heaven's grandest melody in all that appertains
• 2:26:44
  Speaker 13: to call song the acme of celestial harmony, which Angel
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 13: ears discerned with glad surprise, but sweeter than that song.
• 2:26:56
  Speaker 13: The glad refrain wafted from Angel turn innumerable to Earth
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 13: and to the inhabitants thereof peace, Peace on earth. The
• 2:27:10
  Speaker 13: deity is good will. Did there not drink? When on
• 2:27:15
  Speaker 13: Golotha's crest three crosses us, three grisly specters rose, spreading
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 13: their gassy arms protestingly in silent malediction are the scene,
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 13: and even nature paused and stood aghast in shuddering horror
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 13: at the awful sight, relaxing with a trembling earthquake shock
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 13: her sympathetic tension, And when the lightning rent the canopy
• 2:27:46
  Speaker 13: of black supple cultural clouds, which, like a shroud enveloped
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 13: Earth on that terrific night, their litter faced, compassionate and
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 13: pure in beneath the cool crown of thorns, glancing in pity,
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 13: kindled and not with wrath at his tormentors, those who
• 2:28:09
  Speaker 13: loved him, Not the multitude which surged about the cross,
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 13: cursing with accidents, while to crying a loud Crucify him,
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 13: Crucify him, rejected and despised of men Earth which have
• 2:28:30
  Speaker 13: ever slain her noblest son's slays, also her redeemer. Creation
• 2:28:37
  Speaker 13: is but systematized. Decay and change is blazoned on the
• 2:28:42
  Speaker 13: very skies, as in ephemoral telleric scenes, and through the
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 13: whole cosmogony of worlds is written and rewritten Thou who
• 2:28:55
  Speaker 13: hast seen the stately master done Rome at his will,
• 2:29:00
  Speaker 13: Earth's prolific planes, and the unwielding Mecgathrium dragging his cambrius
• 2:29:08
  Speaker 13: disproportionate weight through quaternary marsh and stagnant foon, or watched
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 13: the Exossaurius plow the seas, turning the waters till the
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 13: glistening foam road on the greenish, undulating waves, and huge
• 2:29:28
  Speaker 13: saurian and reptilian shapes, amphibious and pelagic swim and crawl,
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 13: cleaning the waters with tremendous strokes, writhing with foul contortions
• 2:29:42
  Speaker 13: into sport, splashing and laving in the thermal seas of
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 13: the remote and prehistoric past. Thou who hast seen them
• 2:29:52
  Speaker 13: fail and pass away, shalt also shine when man has disappeared.
• 2:29:59
  Speaker 13: Thou who has seen the rank luxuriance of vegetation flourish
• 2:30:05
  Speaker 13: and decay, vanish and pass away, insensibly perish from off
• 2:30:12
  Speaker 13: the earth which nourished it and times supplant its rich
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 13: exuberance with arid wastes of bleak sterility. Wilt thou look
• 2:30:25
  Speaker 13: down in silent, unconcerned, when countless eons of denuding time
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 13: have rendered earth as barren as thyself, bereft of Vergio's
• 2:30:36
  Speaker 13: lust habiliment. When men, with all their passions and desires,
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 13: their strange combines of evil and of good, their prior
• 2:30:48
  Speaker 13: achievements and exalted aims, have passed away forever, the universe
• 2:30:55
  Speaker 13: is but a sepulcher for worlds defunct as the earth
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 13: for living forms, and thou a moon, who has surveyed
• 2:31:04
  Speaker 13: all this there, Thou shalt be consumed with fervent heat,
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 13: for ian the firmament shall pass away. Supreme intelligence, Thou,
• 2:31:16
  Speaker 13: whose greatest worlds and satellites, and who can't estimate the
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 13: universe weighing the heavens in their balances, who hast ordained
• 2:31:28
  Speaker 13: the laws of cosmic space to guide aright the planetary spheres. Thou,
• 2:31:36
  Speaker 13: ruler of the infinite and great alike of vast and infinitesimal,
• 2:31:43
  Speaker 13: that fundamental cause of all that is in process of
• 2:31:48
  Speaker 13: creation and decay, in the mutation and the ravages sequent
• 2:31:54
  Speaker 13: of constant lapse and flight of time, reveal they laws
• 2:32:00
  Speaker 13: that we may follow them. Help us to recognize in
• 2:32:04
  Speaker 13: all thy works, whether of atom or stupendous mass, the
• 2:32:10
  Speaker 13: hand of Deity. Footnote. Attila was believed by the early
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 13: Christians to have been a skirt sent direct from God,
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 13: and some historians aver that he himself encouraged the belief
• 2:32:29
  Speaker 13: and if poem this recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 13: End of Mountain Idols and other poems by Alfred Kasna
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  Speaker 13: King