All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/symbols-by-john-drinkwater/
Each week a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many LibriVox volunteers as possible!John Drinkwater was an English poet and dramatist. In the period immediately before the First World War he was one of the group of poets associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock, along with Rupert Brooke and others. ( Wikipedia)
This week's poem can be found here.
[*] Project Code: SaLhuTKW
Set your recording software to:
Channels: 1 (Mono)
Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44100 kHz
Have questions on "how"?
Check LV's Recording Notes thread before recording. If this is your first recording, you'll also find this Newbie Guide to Recording useful.
Begin your reading with the abbreviated LibriVox disclaimer:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
Then read the poem:Symbols by John Drinkwater, read for LibriVox.org by [your name].
[Add, if you wish, date, your location, and/or your personal url.]
I saw history in a poet’s song,
In a river-reach and a gallows-hill,
In a bridal bed, and a secret wrong,
In a crown of thorns: in a daffodil.
I imagined measureless time in a day,
And starry space in a waggon-road,
And the treasure of all good harvests lay
In the single seed that the sower sowed.
My garden-wind had driven and havened again
All ships that ever had gone to sea,
And I saw the glory of all dead men
In the shadow that went by the side of me.
At the end of your reading, leave a space and then say:
End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
Please leave 5 seconds of silence at the end of your recording.
Save your recording as an mp3 file using the following filename and ID3 tag format:
File name - all in lowercase: symbols_drinkwater_your initials in lowercase_128kb.mp3
(e.g. symbols_drinkwater_klh_128kb.mp3 )
ID3 tags (Version 2.30) ID Tags are completed during Cataloging
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