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Ladies and gentlemen, University Extension. The University of Delaware presents Robert Hill, you're American poet. We'll begin with, we'll call a ballad.

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These are very old poems that were handed down orally from generation to generation and sit down quite late.

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So you find them and it all starts with vision. And here's the standard English version of that.

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Barbara Allen cruelty, a valid, however, came across the Atlantic and it's done in the mountains of Kentucky to this day. In Scarlett town where I was born,

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there was a fair maid dwelling made ever used cry well away. Her name is Barbara Allen. All numeric month of May when

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green bugs there was felon, young, jimmy grow run his death deadline for love with Barbara Allen.

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He said his man and rather than to the town when she was done oh, hey, income to my master there. If your name the Barbara Allen.

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So slowly, slowly, Regilla and slowly she came nine. And when she drew the curtain by young man, I think you're damn well,

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it's, I am sick and very, very thick. And it's all for Barbara Allen. All the better for me. I'll never be. Your heart's blood spilling

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out DNA mind, young man, sushi. When the red line you will fill in it. You made the health go round and round and slighted Barbara Allen.

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He turned his face onto the wall. And death because within Galen do or do my dear friends ALL. And the kind you, Barbara Allen.

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As she was walking all the fields. He had the dead bell melon and never Zhao did ed Bell Gay Pride. Well, to Barbara Allen.

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Oh, Mother, mother, make my bed. I'll make it stopped. And now my love has died for me today. I'll die for him tomorrow.

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Farewell. If he said, The Virgin's all and suddenly fall time felon and thaw take

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warning for the fall of Guo Barbara Allen. So just with a little valid. And next, we come to two very strange all times.

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Now two versions of the same coin. Once English and one's got. The English version is very gentle. And everybody this night

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his diet and everybody is faithful to his memory. In Scott version, everybody does debts, the dead night,

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so much grimmer than the English versions called the three ravens. And the scotch is called the TWA, coffees. Top is being read

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and this is the English 2, 3 Raven. This is hundreds of years. Oh, the way no one knows who really there were three raven sat on a tree.

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They were as black as they might be. And one of them said to his mate, vacui, our breakfast, cake down and yonder

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Greenfield allies and nights lane Andrea shield, his hounds. They lie down at his feet so well they can master key is hot,

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say fly so eagerly is no foul. They're calm him. Down. There comes a fellow dough.

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As great with Janae, she might go lift up his bloody ahead and get these loans. It last so read.

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She got him up upon her back. He carried him to make, she buried him to follow the prime. Q is dead herself at A1

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some time gods than ever a gentleman. Such power and such and such and such a large another way, and of course,

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the English version are generally not nearly as successful. Because the raven question where we are back, the state was never really answered.

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But it's dancing and thought. Good Scotch version of the takeaways. As I was walking all and I had TWA copies making a name.

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The 10 under the pivoted say as we gang and done the day in the hand again, all failed. I, i lot there lies a new slain night, navy Kinsey.

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He lies there. That hip hop is found and his lady, that his hawk is to the hunting game, is, his hound is to the hunting game.

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He's hop to fetch the wild fowl and his lady has taken another name. So we may make Ardennes way. Yale sit on his white pause.

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And I'll pick out it's been a really, with a lot of his golden half will thicken it. When it grows. Bear.

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Many R1 for him make NAN a NAN. So Ken, where he has gained or his white then when the wind so blow forever. And then we come to

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the famous Ballad of the Patrick's. See ballet. Quite evident is that when Ben, great captain,

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had enemies caught back in that EvoS got caught and they can try that he should be sent out in winter. And himself knew Can salesy.

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So km's great valid is influenced. Many call it subsequently. The king sits in them famine town drinking in a blue,

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red wine awash, but I get a skill, a skip our sale is nu shipper mine up and SPAC and LDH and night shattered the kings right knee to

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Patrick spent is the best seller it ever sale the sea king is written abroad letter and deal with his hand and said it to Patrick spend was

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rocking on the strand to Norway, to Norway, Norway all the same. The king's daughter and ROA, thou must bring her hand.

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The first word is Patrick read so loud, loud lot he the next word is Patrick read the tear, a blinded dizzy hose.

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This is done this deed. And tell the king, me to send this out at this time, a year to sail upon.

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See it When bit, wet bit, hey, obviously our ship must sail the fan, the king's daughter and ROA is we must fetch our hand.

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They did their sales on money demand with all the speed they may. They landed in Norway upon on Wednesday. America and Matt Gray Mac,

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ready, my merry men are good. Sail ship sails them on. Now overlap. My master, dear, I fear a deadly storm.

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I saw the pneumo late Yes, dream where they all moon and Haram. And if we'd gone to see Master, I fear will come to

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our madness sale the legally, legally valid three, when the lift good, dark and when grew loud and girly, grew the sea, the

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anchors back in the topmost law. Second deadliest on the waves came or the broken ship. Da Zhuan.

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Go fetch you wherever they still can cough and another, the twine and what the midwives skip side and that let see,

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come in a fetch to wherever the cell can call another the Klein. And they locked them around that good ship side.

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It's still as they came in. Oh, lag. Lead rod, good Scott's lot. To wet the cop yields don't belong. The play was played.

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They wet the hats, the bomb, and money was the feather bed, the fluttered on the same. And then E was the good Lord Son.

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Never ma, come along law may the ladies, with our fans into their hand before they see the PATRIC expense comes sailing to the strand.

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Long non-man made instead with a goat came, have a waiting for their AND ALL for them now seen a man fella half hour to hour

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due to safety fathoms D and their allies, good, fat to expense with this God's laws. And I'm going to read now to tenth, not very old poetry to them.

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American poetry, which is at present a very important influence. In America. The poetry of Emily Dickinson.

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First, truth is as old as God. His twin identity. Hello and yaw, as long as the echoey, Kennedy and perish on the day

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that he is born away from mansion of the universe, a life with DNA. Most of the poems are very sharp and they're

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all packed with epigram, meaning. Some of them are beautifully musical to give us lovely pictures. For example, this New England cemetery and

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often this quiet gentleman and ladies and labs and girls was laughter and ability and sighing and frog.

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And this passive plays a summer's nimble mansion, where blue and the fulfil their oriental thicket and see like B.

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And here's a casual evening time. Lightly step a yellow star to it's locked in place. Lose the moon herself.

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From her last row, faith all evening softly, as an astro Hall, father to heaven. You are punctual.

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And then about the railroad train, I like to see it lacked the miles and the valleys up and stop to feed itself at tank.

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And then prodigious step around the parallel mountains. And supercilious enchant is the sides of roads.

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And then a caret to fit its sides and crawl between complaining all the while in higher-ed proofing stanza and

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then taste itself downhill. And nay like Bowen edges. Then punctual is a star, does an omnipotent at its own stable DOM.

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I'll conclude this reading with an appropriate for my own sins. I had meant to read more. And this is called 20th century.

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There is no time, no time, there is no time. Not in brackets, not in for this, not even for this rhyme.

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It is May and blast them sway and sifted snow under the moon. I only know that I cannot stay for today is May and morrow June,

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an arrow shot from an idiot's bot. That is my a lot and I must go. There is no time, no time, there's no time, not even not even for this right now.