This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/a-sea-story-by-emily-henrietta-hickey/
Each fortnight a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many LibriVox volunteers as possible!This Irish author, narrative poet and translator is new to our catalog. In this poem, she tells a sad tale of a shipwreck and the agonizing choice of who lives and who doesn't. (Summary by TriciaG)
This fortnight's poem can be found here.
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Begin your reading with the abbreviated LibriVox disclaimer:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Then read the poem:A Sea Story by Emily Henrietta Hickey, 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:SILENCE. A while ago
Shrieks went up piercingly;
But now is the ship gone down;
Good ship, well manned, was she.
There’s a raft that’s a chance of life for one,
This day upon the sea.
A chance for one of two—
Young, strong, are he and he,
Just in the manhood prime,
The comelier, verily,
For the wrestle with wind and weather and wave,
In the life upon the sea.
One of them has a wife
And little children three;
Two that can toddle and lisp,
And a suckling on the knee:
Naked they’ll go, and hunger sore,
If he be lost at sea.
One has a dream of home,
A dream that well may be:
He never has breathed it yet;
She never has known it, she.
But some one will be sick at heart
If he be lost at sea.
“Wife and kids at home!—
Wife, kids, nor home has he!—
Give us a chance, Bill!” Then,
“All right, Jem!” Quietly
A man gives up his life for a man,
This day upon the sea.
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end.End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
Filename: seastory_hickey_your initials in lowercase_128kb.mp3 (e.g. seastory_hickey_klh_128kb.mp3)
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