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The Hand that Rocks the Cradle is the Hand that Rules the World

by William Ross Wallace (1819-1881)

For Mother’s Day 2006, we’ve recorded five versions of this tribute to Mothers and their role in shaping the future. The title is very famous out of its context, but now you can hear how it was originally intended.

• Poet’s Corner e-text
• Wikipedia – The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
• LibriVox’s The Hand that Rocks the Cradle is the Hand that Rules the World Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (4.9MB)
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mp3 and ogg files

• Version 1 – 00:02:22
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.1MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.6MB]
  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Version 2 – 00:01:53
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.9MB]
  Read by: Deborah Stafford
• Version 3 – 00:02:11
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.0MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.2MB]
  Read by: Laura Fox
• Version 4 – 00:01:57
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.4MB]
  Read by: Mark F. Smith
• Version 5 – 00:01:45
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.9MB]
  Read by: Westwinds12