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Each week a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many LibriVox volunteers as possible!Much of Dunbar's more popular work i his lifetime was written in the "Negro dialect" associated with the antebellum South, though he also used the Midwestern regional dialect of James Whitcomb Riley. Dunbar also wrote in conventional English in other poetry and novels and is considered the first important African American sonnet writer. (Summary by Wikipedia)
This week's poem can be found here.
Project Code: 94ZtSka0
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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:Then And Now by Paul Laurence Dunbar, 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:THEN
He loved her, and through many years,
Had paid his fair devoted court,
Until she wearied, and with sneers
Turned all his ardent love to sport.
That night within his chamber lone,
He long sat writing by his bed
A note in which his heart made moan
For love; the morning found him dead.
NOW
Like him, a man of later day
Was jilted by the maid he sought,
And from her presence turned away,
Consumed by burning, bitter thought.
He sought his room to write—a curse
Like him before and die, I ween.
Ah no, he put his woes in verse,
And sold them to a magazine.
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end.End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
Filename: thenandnow_dunbar_your initials in lowercase_128kb.mp3 (e.g. thenandnow_dunbar_klh_128kb.mp3)
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