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Date Posted: 03:30:38 03/16/04 Tue
Author: jim clark london england
Subject: London by William Blake (listen online)(

"London" is surely William Blakes best remembered poem it takes us on a dark fatalistic voyage through London's murky streets where through the vision of Blake we witness hopelesness and despair on every corner and in every face. It seems all are doomed in Blakes bleak 18th century despair filled streets....

Here a modern day mystic of the alternative London poetry scene the unique Dave Russell performs this unforgetable version of this much loved poem from the first video recording session I held with him in 1997 and from the soundtrack subsequently issued on his first CD "Bacteria Schrapnel" in 1999....

Heres the link to the page where you can listen to this and many other classic poems set to music..

http://groups.msn.com/acousticmusiciansandpoetssoundarchive/poetrysounds.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=561

Regards.

Jim Clark
PS..Dont forget you can if you prefer listen to my sound poems at my Yahoo "sound poetry" web groups (look in "files") heres that link..
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bloozman_uk/
You can listen to this particular poem in my second yahoo "Soundpoemz" sound poetry group heres that link..
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soundpoemz/

All rights are reserved on this sound recording/copyright/patent Jim Clark 1999

London

I wander thro' each charter'd street.
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear

How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every blackning Church appalls,
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls

But most thro' midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

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