Thanx Guys your feedback is most interesting I hoope some of you will make the journey over to come and listen to this and numerous other sound poems and acoustic music recordings....I got the poem from the Penguin book of Victorian verse edition edited by Daniel Karlin 1997 and now I see I should have broken the poem into three..the third and final part commences 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty.....I think you'll find my reading is in this order..

Genie I hope you've managed to listen to this sound poem by now.MSN possibly because of pressures on their network caused by the Iraq situation were having one of their funny days yesterday...You do need to become a member at MSN and Yahoo sites to open sound files,but rest assured the dozens of sound poems and music tracks on my websites do play..

Regards.

Jim Clark....