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Each week a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many LibriVox volunteers as possible!This week LibriVox presents a reflective poem by Edgar Lee Masters. (Summary by David Lawrence)
This week's poem can be found [/url=https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/edgar-lee-masters/abel-melveny-37512]here[/url].
Project Code: pgrRbyhO
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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:Abel Melveny by Edgar Lee Masters, 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:I bought every kind of machine that's known -
Grinders, shellers, planters, mowers,
Mills and rakes and ploughs and threshers -
And all of them stood in the rain and sun,
Getting rusted, warped and battered,
For I had no sheds to store them in,
And no use for most of them.
And toward the last, when I thought it over,
There by my window, growing clearer
About myself, as my pulse slowed down,
And looked at one of the mills I bought -
Which I didn't have the slightest need of,
As things turned out, and I never ran -
A fine machine, once brightly varnished,
And eager to do its work,
Now with its paint washed off -
I saw myself as a good machine
That Life had never used.
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end.End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
Filename: abelmelveny_masters_your initials in lowercase_128kb.mp3 (e.g. abelmelveny_masters_klh_128kb.mp3)
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MC to select: aradlaw
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