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Each week a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many LibriVox volunteers as possible!Academics studying Christina Rossetti's work in the 1970s saw beyond the lyrical sweetness to her mastery of prosody and versification. Feminists held her as a symbol of constrained female genius and a leader among 19th-century poets.
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This week's poem can be found here.
Project Code: RnNVmU7s
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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:Another Spring by Christina Rossetti, 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:If I might see another Spring
I'd not plant summer flowers and wait:
I'd have my crocuses at once,
My leafless pink mezereons,
My chill-veined snowdrops, choicer yet
My white or azure violet,
Leaf-nested primrose; anything
To blow at once not late.
If I might see another Spring
I'd listen to the daylight birds
That build their nests and pair and sing,
Nor wait for mateless nightingale;
I'd listen to the lusty herds,
The ewes with lambs as white as snow,
I'd find out music in the hail
And all the winds that blow.
If I might see another Spring--
O stinging comment on my past
That all my past results in "if"--
If I might see another Spring
I'd laugh to-day, to-day is brief;
I would not wait for anything:
I'd use to-day that cannot last,
Be glad to-day and sing.
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end.End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
Filename: anotherspring_rossetti_your initials in lowercase_128kb.mp3 (e.g. anotherspring_rossetti_klh_128kb.mp3)
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good first reading. 
