Author's Prologue-Dylan Thomas

[ti:Author's Prologue] [ar:Dylan Thomas] [al:Reading His Complete Recorded Poetry] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.93]This day winding down now [00:03.27]At God speeded summer's end [00:05.89] [00:06.61]In the torrent salmon sun [00:08.73] [00:09.52]In my seashaken house [00:11.55]On a breakneck of rocks [00:13.37] [00:13.90]Tangled with chirrup and fruit [00:16.26] [00:16.88]Froth flute fin and quill [00:20.64]At a wood's dancing hoof [00:22.88] [00:23.86]By scummed starfish sands [00:26.87]With their fishwife cross [00:28.88]Gulls pipers cockles and snails [00:32.39] [00:32.97]Out there crow black men [00:36.23]Tackled with clouds who kneel [00:39.13]To the sunset nets [00:41.05] [00:41.76]Geese nearly in heaven boys [00:45.10]Stabbing and herons and shells [00:48.24]That speak seven seas [00:50.77] [00:51.57]Eternal waters away [00:54.11]From the cities of nine [00:56.00]Days' night whose towers will catch [00:59.52]In the religious wind [01:01.08] [01:01.87]Like stalks of tall dry straw [01:05.57] [01:07.09]At poor peace I sing [01:09.34]To you strangers though song [01:12.93]Is a burning and crested act [01:16.38] [01:16.90]The fire of birds in [01:18.88]The world's turning wood [01:21.26]For my swan splay sounds [01:24.24] [01:24.96]Out of these seathumbed leaves [01:27.78]That will fly and fall [01:30.40]Like leaves of trees and as soon [01:33.90]Crumble Into the dogdayed night [01:37.20] [01:38.74]Seaward the salmon [01:40.18]Sucked sun slips [01:42.23]And the dumb swans drub blue [01:45.13]My dabbed bay's dusk as I hack [01:49.09]This rumpus of shapes [01:51.35]For you to know [01:52.67] [01:53.17]How I a spining man [01:55.52] [01:56.17]Glory also this star bird [02:00.04]Roared sea born [02:02.26] [02:02.78]Man torn blood blest [02:05.80] [02:06.62]Huk I trumpet the place [02:09.47]From fish to jumping hill Look: [02:13.37]I build my bellowing ark [02:16.56]To the best of my love [02:18.21]As the flood begins [02:20.86]Out of the fountainhead [02:22.55]Of fear rage read manalive [02:26.65] [02:27.16]Molten and mountainous to stream [02:30.56]Over the wound asleep [02:32.61]Sheep white hollow farms [02:35.16] [02:36.04]To Wales in my arms [02:38.23] [02:40.11]Hoo there in castle keep [02:42.66]You king singsong owls [02:45.66]Who moonbeam [02:46.85]The flickering runs and dive [02:49.83]The dingle furred deer dead [02:52.84] [02:53.69]Huloo on plumbed bryns [02:56.46]O my ruffled ring dove [02:58.96]In the hooting [03:00.19]Nearly dark [03:01.77]With Welsh and reverent rook [03:04.87]Coo rooning the woods' praise [03:07.83] [03:08.36]Who moons her blue notes from her nest [03:11.45] [03:12.14]Down to the curlew herd [03:14.58] [03:15.25]Ho hullaballoing clan [03:17.63]Agape with woe [03:19.49]In your beaks [03:20.35]On the gabbing capes [03:22.24] [03:22.92]Heigh on horseback hill jack [03:25.94]Whisking hare who [03:28.44]Hears there [03:29.35]This fox light [03:31.04]My flood ship's [03:32.69]Clangour as I hew and smite [03:35.35] [03:35.99]A clash of anvils for my [03:38.82]Hubbub and fiddle this tune [03:41.55]On atounged puffball [03:44.24]But animals thick as theives [03:47.58]On God's rough tumbling grounds [03:50.34] [03:50.94]Hail to His beasthood [03:52.94] [03:54.08]Beasts who sleep good and thin [03:56.82]Hist in hogback woods [03:59.46]The haystacked [04:00.73]Hollow farms ina throng [04:03.30]Of waters cluck and cling [04:05.94]And barnroofs cockcrow war [04:09.07] [04:10.41]O kingdom of neighbors finned [04:13.91]Felled and quilled [04:15.89]Flash to my patch [04:17.70]Work ark and the moonshine [04:20.58]Drinking Noah of the bay [04:23.57]With pelt and scale [04:25.93]And fleece: [04:27.10] [04:28.17]Only the drowned deep bells [04:30.96]Of sheep and churches noise [04:33.60]Poor peace as the sun sets [04:37.47] [04:38.17]And dark shoals every holy field [04:42.03] [04:43.20]We shall ride out alone [04:46.08]And then [04:46.84] [04:47.36]Under the stars of Wales [04:49.98] [04:50.53]Cry Multiudes of arks Across [04:55.82]The water lidded lands [04:58.19]Manned with their loves they'll move [05:01.59]Like wooden islands hill to hill [05:05.06] [05:06.01]Huloo my prowed dove with a flute [05:10.17] [05:10.81]Ahoy old sea-legged fox [05:14.19]Tom tit and Dai mouse [05:17.05] [05:18.47]My ark sings in the sun [05:21.68] [05:22.27]At God speeded summer's end [05:25.39] [05:26.02]And the flood flowers now [05:29.69]Author's Prologue - Dylan Thomas