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To Flowers From Italy In Winter by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)

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This Weekly Poem features some of the Poet's thoughts on imported flowers. ( a curious subject) (Summary by David Lawrence)
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To Flowers From Italy In Winter by Thomas Hardy, read for librivox.org by [your name].
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Sunned in the South, and here to-day;
—If all organic things
Be sentient, Flowers, as some men say,
What are your ponderings?

How can you stay, nor vanish quite
From this bleak spot of thorn,
And birch, and fir, and frozen white
Expanse of the forlorn?

Frail luckless exiles hither brought!
Your dust will not regain
Old sunny haunts of Classic thought
When you shall waste and wane;

But mix with alien earth, be lit
With frigid Boreal flame,
And not a sign remain in it
To tell men whence you came.
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Post by LeeSalter »

Here is my recording. Running time is 01:07

https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/toflowers_hardy_ls_128kb.mp3
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Post by aradlaw »

Thank you Lee. :thumbs:
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Post by BrizeCrize »

My take coming in at 1:02. I must've read this in school or something, as I instantly recognized the title. As usual, I think I enjoyed it more this time.

https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/toflowers_hardy_bc_128kb.mp3

Thanks, Brize
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Thank you Brize. :thumbs:
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Post by alanmapstone »

To Flowers by Hardy

https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/toflowers_hardy_aam_128kb.mp3
1.09

I have always thought Hardy to be a better poet than novelist. :hmm:
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Thank you Alan, but at 0:52 I hear "And not a sign of it remain " the text reads "And not a sign remain in it" you may wish to correct this. :wink:
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Post by alanmapstone »

To Flowers revised

https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/toflowers_hardy_aam_128kb.mp3
1.09

The initials in MW should be AAM
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Thanks for the edit Alan, now PL OK.
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Post by Newgatenovelist »

Off LV 25-28 March.
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Thank you Erin. :thumbs:
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Thank you Algy. :thumbs:
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Thank you Bruce. :thumbs:
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