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Each week a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many LibriVox volunteers as possible!Edward Powys Mathers was an English translator and poet, and also a pioneer of compiling advanced cryptic crosswords. Some of his translations were set to music by Aaron Copland.
This poem is taken from The Garden Of Bright Waters, One Hundred And Twenty Asiatic Love Poems
Translated by Edward Powys Mathers (1920)
(Summary by Wikipedia)
This week's poem can be found here.
Project Code: 3v2cRQPd
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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:Written On A Wall In Spring by Edward Powys Mathers, 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:It rained last night,
But fair weather has come back
This morning.
The green clusters of the palm-trees
Open and begin to throw shadows.
But sorrow drifts slowly down about me.
I come and go in my room,
Heart-heavy with memories.
The neighbour green casts shadows of green
On my blind;
The moss, soaked in dew,
Takes the least print
Like delicate velvet.
I see again a gauze tunic of oranged rose
With shadowy underclothes of grenade red.
How things still live again.
I go and sit by the day balustrade
And do nothing
Except count the plains
And the mountains
And the valleys
And the rivers
That separate from my Spring.
From the Chinese (early nineteenth century).
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end.End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
Filename: wallinspring_mathers_your initials in lowercase_128kb.mp3 (e.g. wallinspring_mathers_klh_128kb.mp3)
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