COMPLETE [WEEKLY POEM] On Christmas Eve, by Katharine Lee Bates - tg

[TriciaG]

On Christmas Eve, by Katharine Lee Bates (1859 - 1929)

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/on-christmas-eve-by-katharine-lee-bates/

LibriVox volunteers bring you -- recordings of On Christmas Eve by Katharine Lee Bates.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 19, 2021.
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Begin your reading with the abbreviated LibriVox disclaimer:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.

On Christmas Eve by Katharine Lee Bates, read for librivox.org by [your name].
[Add, if you wish, date, and/or your location.]

Then read the poem:

On Christmas Eve, so runs the marvellous tale,
Heaven once flashed through her amethystine veil,
And while this raptured earth beheld and heard
Those star-eclipsing choirs, the Eternal Word
Put on our flesh to bear our human bale.

Faint with the sweets such sanctities exhale,
Deep-brooding Doubt lets fall his winnowing flail,
And feels his weary heart divinely stirred
On Christmas Eve.

For sudden lustres play o'er hill and dale,
The silence thrills to music, mothers pale
Smile like Madonnas, and the Christ, unblurred
By mists of time, unslain, unsepulchred,
Life's cup re-consecrates to Holy Grail
On Christmas Eve.

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Filename: onchristmaseve_bates_your initials in lowercase_128kb.mp3 (e.g. onchristmaseve_bates_klh_128kb.mp3)

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[SarahJ05]

Link: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/(onchristmaseve_bates_sj_128kb_mp3).mp3

Duration: 01:03

Thank you!

[silverquill]

Had my mic set up, so here is the second entry:

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/onchristmaseve_bates_lcw_128kb.mp3 1:08

[KevinS]

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/onchristmaseve_bates_ks_128kb.mp3 (1:09)

[TriciaG]

Thank you - all 3 PL OK!

Sarah - note that your file name is a bit wonky. Please don't use parentheses, and don't add the ".mp3" part to the file name. Your computer will add that automatically. You don't have to fix this file name; I'll do that at cataloging time. But please note this for any future file you contribute.

[Claire]

Here's mine at 1:18:

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/onchristmaseve_bates_lah_128kb.mp3

[TriciaG]

Thank you - PL OK!

[Hbloom]

Here is my iteration:
https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/onchristmaseve_bates_hb_128kb.mp3

Duration: 01:20

Thank you,
Hope Bloom

[TriciaG]

Thank you, Hope! It's all good aside from some silences:

- There are about 3 seconds of silence at the beginning. Please cut this down to about 0.5-1 second.
- And I guess while you're in there, you could cut about 2 seconds off the end. It's now about 7 seconds and only needs to be 5.

[pschempf]

Tricia -

Here's my try -

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/onchristmaseve_bates_ps_128kb.mp3
Track length: 1:09

[TriciaG]

Thanks, Fritz. PL OK!

[brucek]

Here's mine at 1:22

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/onchristmaseve_bates_bk_128kb.mp3

~~~~~
Bruce.

[TriciaG]

Thank you - PL OK!

[rberenyi]

I am excited to post this, my first official recording with Librivox (not counting my test recording). Here it is:

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/onchristmaseve_bates_rb_128kb.mp3

Duration: 01:10

Name: Rochelle Berenyi

[TriciaG]

Thank you. PL OK. Welcome to the wide world of recording!