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Date Posted: 05:07:54 06/13/04 Sun
Author: jim clark london england
Subject: Like a Hermit by Sir Walter Raleigh (online sound poem)

Life can sometimes be so filled with dissapointments that like Sir Walter Raleigh 1552 - 1618 our minds too can turn to thoughts of the simple life of a hermit where only our memories and thoughts can fill our days. Alas surely in reality solitude alone cannot bring us happiness and the true hermit must surely have to put to rest the angst that first led them to running away from human society before finding the peace of mind that they are seeking.

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

http://tinyurl.com/26mq3

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/


Al rights are reserved on this sound recording/copyright/patent Jim Clark 2004

Like to a hermit

Like to a hermit poor in place obscure
I mean to spend my days of endless doubt,
To wail such woes as time cannot recure,
Where none but Love shall ever find me out.

My food shall be of care and sorrow made,
My drink nought else but tears fall'n from mine eyes;
And for my light in such obscurėd shade,
The flames shall serve wich from my heart arise.

A gown of gray my body shall attire,
My staff of broken hope whereon I'll stay;
Of late repentance linked with long desire
The couch is framed whereon my limbs I'll lay;

And at my gate despair shall linger still
To let in death when love and fortune will

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