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hugh

all audio files can be found on our catalog page:
http://librivox.org/voice-of-the-ancient-bard-by-william-blake/

OK this is an experiment (mtl3p's idea, implemented for In Flanders Fields):
Below is a poem, by William Blake. Let's see how many different versions we can get done this week. Multiple versions is the idea. Due Date: Sat, November 19.

Introduce with the regular LibriVox stuff, and add: "Read by [name], in [place], [date]."

Save files:
ancient_bard_blake_[your initials].mp3
post it here, or send by:
www.yousendit.com to hugh [at] dosemagazine (dot) com

THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
by William Blake

Youth of delight! come hither
And see the opening morn,
Image of Truth new-born.
Doubt is fled, and clouds of reason,
Dark disputes and artful teazing.
Folly is an endless maze;
Tangled roots perplex her ways;
How many have fallen there!
They stumble all night over bones of the dead;
And feel--they know not what but care;
And wish to lead others, when they should be led.
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hugh · Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:31 pm Post subject:

here<s one:

http://www.westmountrugby.com/misc/ancient_bard_blake_hm.mp3
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kayray · Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:16 pm Post subject:

Here ya go:

http://kayray.org/audiobooks/librivox/misc/ancient_bard_blake_ks.mp3

I like this weekly poetry thing!

Kara
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hugh · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:41 am Post subject:

kara, as a reward for being the first to post here, you are granted the right to choose the poem next week. Post on sunday, if you can, ok?
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kayray · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:54 am Post subject:

awesome! what fun!

kara
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mtl3p · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 4

mine's not great - but i'll get better. this one was too fast. but I wanted to have some feeling of drama.

i sent it to hugh - don't have anywhere to post it right now.

i was kind of intimidated by the poem - not having much of an idea what it was about. I did 15 min of research on it - and found that the experts are pretty confused by it as well - so that reassured me.

kayray · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:55 am Post subject:

Heheh it is a strange poem, and difficult. I have no idea what it's about, either, and didn't even research it -- but I have a vague feeling that it's about religious faith versus, um, non-faith, or science, or something... I dunno, I just got that impression, so that's how I read it :) Wasn't Blake a mystic or something?

*shows impressive ignorance*

I'm going to choose something a bit more straightforward for next week's poem!

Kara
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BradBush · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 183 Location: Texas

Here is mine. I used it to test to see if my comcast will let me upload and y'all get the files:
http://home.comcast.net/~bush.brad/librivox/ancient_bard_blake_jbb.mp3

Please post if this works!

Brad

kayray · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 6:19 am Post subject:

It works -- sounds great, Brad!

Back to work on my Verne chapters...

kara
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BradBush · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 183 Location: Texas

Thanks for checking!! I am so glad this works. YouSendIt was down, so it made me get industrious. Goodbye OurMedia and YouSendIt (except I have to leave my podcast at the archive, because it will quickly eat up my 175MB and bandwidth)

Brad

hugh · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 1:11 pm Post subject:

here's mtl3p's version:
http://www.westmountrugby.com/misc/ancient_bard_blake_mtl3p.mp3
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Squiddhartha · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 1:07 am Post subject:

Gotta love a reading that clocks in at under a minute in its entirety!

http://surly.org/librivox/ancient_bard_blake_s.mp3
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jeanosullivan · Joined: 17 Oct 2005 Posts: 7 Location: Los Angeles, CA

Well, here's mine:

www.jeanosullivan.com/ancient_bard_blake_JOS.mp3

Jean

jeanosullivan · Joined: 17 Oct 2005 Posts: 7 Location: Los Angeles, CA

Okay, I just posted my "Voice of the Ancient Bard" and THEN listened to the other versions. This is so cool! Thanks, everyone, for this fun thing! All different; all true!

Jeanosullivan

columkil · Joined: 20 Nov 2005 Posts: 2 Location: scotland

hello all. Just joined and have been listening to the weekly poem. Great fun, thanks to all! Kayray, please choose quickly as I can't wait to have a bash at the next poem. I think it would be a good start for me rather than just grabbing a chapter. Hopefully folk will like the "old tones" and that will boost my confidence for something a little bigger ... Very Happy

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