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Each week a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many LibriVox volunteers as possible!LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of The Crystal Gazer by Sara Teasdale .<br>
This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 30, 2023. <br> ------<br>
Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. In 1918 she won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 poetry collection Love Songs.
This Weekly Poem is taken from Dark of the Moon (1926). (Summary by David Lawrence )
This poem was suggested by TriciaG.
This week's poem can be found here.
Project Code: J6a5BkxW
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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:The Crystal Gazer by Sara Teasdale, 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 shall gather myself into myself again,
I shall take my scattered selves and make them one,
Fusing them into a polished crystal ball
Where I can see the moon and the flashing sun.
I shall sit like a sibyl, hour after hour intent,
Watching the future come and the present go,
And the little shifting pictures of people rushing
In restless self-importance to and fro.
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end.End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
Filename: crystalgazer_teasdale_your initials in lowercase_128kb.mp3 (e.g. crystalgazer_teasdale_klh_128kb.mp3)
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