Just felt like singing, so I did!

Well, I'm in love with The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy. One of my favorite poems for many reasons. One of them being that I sang an arrangement of this by Timothy Takach a couple years back when I was in choir in high school. And the melody is so haunting and beautiful. So today I sang it, and though I'm very rusty, I thought I'd share it with all of you. Beautiful poem. Beautiful song. Enjoy!

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And here is the poem:

The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.

The land's sharp features seemed to be
The Century's corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed fervourless as I.

At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.

So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.
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Comments

A beautiful voice.

Thanshin, Apr 20, 2011
"I'm very rusty."

Haha -- yeah. I can TOTALLY tell . . .

There's not much you can't do, Bay. I don't know if I want to teach you how to whistle. Everyone should have at least SOMETHING that they suck at.

Sidewinder, Apr 20, 2011
Good job.

Jayyy1014, Apr 21, 2011
Absolutely gorgeous, Baywriter You should post more.

Trish, Apr 21, 2011
Aw, thanks everyone!

SW: You better teach me how to whistle! You promised! Haha.

Baywriter, Apr 21, 2011

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Just felt like singing, so I did!

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