Eliot Phrasis Quartet Recited Part 1
ELIOT PHRASIS 1
Languid among the trees and
feathery grass,the all embracing sky,
stirring smoke of autumn days.Fear
and trembling predominates over
hope,where memories of past
incidents may pass as history.
Then,exquisite truth and delicacy
touches this heart and sprinkles
precious grains of tenderness and
calm.In a triumph of human goodness
emotion blends everything into
harmony.Sweet piety beaming kindness
loses this sense of a separate self,
recognising polite insincerity
active as imagination.
From George Eliot Journal& Letters 1885
Listen to me read this phrasis quartet on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro
Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2014
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