This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/when-there-is-peace-by-henry-austin-dobson/
Each week a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many LibriVox volunteers as possible!LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of When There Is Peace by Henry Austin Dobson.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 26, 2022.
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Henry Austin Dobson (18 January 1840 – 2 September 1921) was an English poet, essayist, and biographer. He is commonly known as Austin Dobson. Dobson first gained attention by appearing in St. Paul's magazine, published by Anthony Trollope, and he gathered enough material to publish his first book of verse in 1873, Vignettes in Rhyme. Dobson is perhaps best known for his promotion and use of European metrical forms such as the ballade, rondel, rondeau and villanelle, but all written in English. (Summary by mungojerry311)
This week's poem can be found here.
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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:When There Is Peace by Henry Austin Dobson, 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:"When there is Peace our land no more
Will be the land we knew of yore."
Thus do our facile seers foretell
The truth that none can buy or sell
And e'en the wisest must ignore.
When we have bled at every pore,
Shall we still strive for gear and store?
Will it be Heaven? Will it be Hell,
When there is Peace?
This let us pray for, this implore:
That all base dreams thrust out at door,
We may in loftier aims excel
And, like men waking from a spell,
Grow stronger, nobler, than before,
When there is Peace.
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end.End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
Filename: peace_dobson_your initials in lowercase_128kb.mp3 (e.g. peace_dobson_klh_128kb.mp3)
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