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Each fortnight a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many LibriVox volunteers as possible!This poem appears as the introduction (prelude) to THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS And What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll. (Summary by David Lawrence)
This poem was suggested by LectorRecitator.
This fortnight's poem can be found here.
Project Code: nBCwvziG
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Begin your reading with the abbreviated LibriVox disclaimer:
Leave ½ to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Then read the poem:Child of the Pure Unclouded Brow by Lewis Carroll, 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:Child of the pure unclouded brow
And dreaming eyes of wonder!
Though time be fleet, and I and thou
Are half a life asunder,
Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love-gift of a fairy-tale.
I have not seen thy sunny face,
Nor heard thy silver laughter;
No thought of me shall find a place
In thy young life’s hereafter—
Enough that now thou wilt not fail
To listen to my fairy-tale.
A tale begun in other days,
When summer suns were glowing—
A simple chime, that served to time
The rhythm of oar rowing—
Whose echoes live in memory yet,
Though envious years would say ‘forget.’
Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread.
With bitter tidings laden,
Shall summon to unwelcome bed
A melancholy maiden!
We are but older children, dear,
Who fret to find our bedtime near.
Without, the frost, the blinding snow.
The storm-wind’s moody madness—
Within, the firelight’s ruddy glow,
And childhood’s nest of gladness.
The magic words shall hold thee fast:
Thou shalt not heed the raving blast.
And though the shadow of a sigh
May tremble through the story,
For ‘happy summer days’ gone by,
And vanish’d summer glory—
It shall not touch with breath of bale
The pleasance of our fairy-tale.
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end.End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
Filename: brow_carroll_your initials in lowercase_128kb.mp3 (e.g. brow_carroll_klh_128kb.mp3)
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MC to select: aradlaw
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good first reading, but there are a couple of tech spec issues to fix...
