Fifteenth Sign [Accidental Audio]

[beyondimagining]

[Anyone listening on the communicators tonight might be able to catch the sound of a young boy singing in a high clear voice.  He doesn't seem to be aware that anyone else is listening. ]

 
Still hangs the hedge without a gust,
  Still, still the shadows stay:
My feet upon the moonlit dust
  Pursue the ceaseless way.
 
The world is round, so travellers tell,
  And straight though reach the track,
Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well,
  The way will guide one back.
 
But ere the circle homeward hies
  Far, far must it remove:
White in the moon the long road lies
  That leads me from my love.

[Will's song is a setting of one of A.E. Housman's poems from A Shropshire Lad.]

Comments

Voice

[kan_chyan]

That sounds vaguely familiar.

Re: Voice

[beyondimagining.livejournal.com]

It is an arrangement of an old poem. I learned it for school last year.

Voice

[kan_chyan]

Ah, that makes sense then. I studied a lot of western poetry in school.

Re: Voice

[beyondimagining.livejournal.com]

It is fairly well known, I think.

Voice

[kan_chyan]

It was on the reading list, but so were a lot of other authors.

Re: Voice

[beyondimagining.livejournal.com]

That does sound like school.

Voice

[kan_chyan]

It was important to read western authors if you wanted to be in an exchange program, in fact, you had to take a lot of special classes and be proficient in English.