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Each week a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many LibriVox volunteers as possible!Joseph Horatio Chant was born in Somersetshire, England.
His parents came to Canada in 1840 and settled in Niagara-on-the-Lake in Ontario. He attended Victoria College when it was in Cobourg and was ordained to the Methodist ministry in 1864. Mr. Chant was a poet and published "Gleams of Sunshine" in 1915. (Summary by David Lawrence)
This week's poem can be found here.
Project Code: cV9wflLv
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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:Life by Joseph Horatio Chant, 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:Our lives seem filled with things of little worth;
A thousand petty cares arise each day
Which bring our soaring thoughts from heaven to earth,
Reminding us that we have feet of clay;
Yet we will not from path of duty stray
If we amidst them all cleave to the right;
Nor great nor small are actions in His sight;
Through lowly vale He shows our feet the way.
Our early dreams may not be realized;
The roseate sky now proves quite commonplace;
The constellations we so highly prized
Have vanished all—nor left the slightest trace
Of former glory in its azure face,
But high o'er all beams out the polar star
To guide us safe through rock and sandy bar;
Life is complete and its cap-stone is grace.
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end.End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
Filename: life_chant_your initials in lowercase_128kb.mp3 (e.g. life_chant_klh_128kb.mp3)
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