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Each week a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many LibriVox volunteers as possible!An early eerie Halloween tale, taken from Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses by Thomas Hardy (1922)
(Summary by David Lawrence)
This week's poem can be found here.
Project Code: hUgABHtQ
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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:The Two Wives by Thomas Hardy, 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:Smoker's Club-Story
I waited at home all the while they were boating together—
My wife and my near neighbour’s wife:
Till there entered a woman I loved more than life,
And we sat and sat on, and beheld the uprising dark weather,
With a sense that some mischief was rife.
Tidings came that the boat had capsized, and that one of the ladies
Was drowned—which of them was unknown:
And I marvelled—my friend’s wife?—or was it my own
Who had gone in such wise to the land where the sun as the shade is?
—We learnt it was his had so gone.
Then I cried in unrest: “He is free! But no good is releasing
To him as it would be to me!”
“—But it is,” said the woman I loved, quietly.
“How?” I asked her. “—Because he has long loved me too without ceasing,
And it’s just the same thing, don’t you see.”
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end.End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
Filename: twowives_hardy_your initials in lowercase_128kb.mp3 (e.g. twowives_hardy_klh_128kb.mp3)
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