Heres a virtual movie of the Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins reading his beautiful poem "The Leaden Echo" the first part of a 2 part poem for two voices I hope to do a complete virtual movie of this wonderful dark poem in the near future.
The poem is read with great elequence by Jolyon Airs Forsythe.
Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 -- 8 June 1889), was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose 20th-century fame established him posthumously among the leading Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody (especially sprung rhythm) and his use of imagery established him as a daring innovator in a period of largely traditional verse.
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
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THE LEADEN ECHO
HOW to kéep—is there ány any, is there none such, nowhere known some, bow or brooch or braid or brace, láce, latch or catch or key to keep
Back beauty, keep it, beauty, beauty, beauty, from vanishing away?
Ó is there no frowning of these wrinkles, rankéd wrinkles deep,
Dówn? no waving off of these most mournful messengers, still messengers, sad and stealing messengers of grey?
No there s none, there s none, O no there s none,
Nor can you long be, what you now are, called fair,
Do what you may do, what, do what you may,
And wisdom is early to despair:
Be beginning; since, no, nothing can be done
To keep at bay 10
Age and ages evils, hoar hair,
Ruck and wrinkle, drooping, dying, deaths worst, winding sheets, tombs and worms and tumbling to decay;
So be beginning, be beginning to despair.
O there s none; no no no there s none:
Be beginning to despair, to despair,
Despair, despair, despair, despair.
