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Each week a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many LibriVox volunteers as possible!Madison Julius Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. This LibriVox Weekly Poem is taken from Poems by Madison Cawein (1911). (Summary by Wikipedia)
This week's poem can be found here.
Project Code: tUwIqehl
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Begin your reading with the abbreviated LibriVox disclaimer:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Then read the poem:The Wind Of Spring by Madison Cawein, read for librivox.org by [your name].
[Add, if you wish, date, and/or your location.]
At the end of your reading, leave a space and then say:The wind that breathes of columbines
And celandines that crowd the rocks;
That shakes the balsam of the pines
With laughter from his airy locks,
Stops at my city door and knocks.
He calls me far a-forest, where
The twin-leaf and the blood-root bloom;
And, circled by the amber air,
Life sits with beauty and perfume
Weaving the new web of her loom.
He calls me where the waters run
Through fronding ferns where wades the hern;
And, sparkling in the equal sun,
Song leans above her brimming urn,
And dreams the dreams that love shall learn.
The wind has summoned, and I go:
To read God's meaning in each line
The wildflowers write; and, walking slow,
God's purpose, of which song is sign,
The wind's great, gusty hand in mine.
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end.End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
Filename: windofspring_cawein_your initials in lowercase_128kb.mp3 (e.g. windofspring_cawein_klh_128kb.mp3)
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good first reading, but the volume is too low at 72.4 dB. You should aim for your waveforms to peak near the 0.5 mark, like this:
