{"id":286,"date":"2005-11-17T14:07:17","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T18:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=286"},"modified":"2014-12-24T11:22:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T16:22:48","slug":"a-donne-a-day-25-the-relique-first-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/a-donne-a-day-25-the-relique-first-take\/","title":{"rendered":"A Donne A Day 25: The Relique (First Take)"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first set of attempts at recording and commenting on “The Relique”<\/a> was spoiled by a technical problem: I thought I was using one microphone, but in fact was using the built-in microphone on my tablet PC. I redid the recording to get a better-sounding podcast. So why podcast the spoiled attempt? Because I think the reading is usefully different and perhaps better, and because the commentary is fuller and more exploratory. By the time of the re-take, I had more of an idea of how I was going to say what I wanted to say. That led to a more concise and perhaps better commentary, but the first take is much fuller and more searching, even in its rambles.<\/p>\n

Comparing the two takes is interesting. Comparing two takes of a student performance would also be interesting. Anything that enhances mindfulness while preserving discovery and delightful, serendipitous surprise is a good strategy for education, in my view. And thus I am bold enough to tax the listener’s patience with an inferior recording of the very same poem.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/podcast\/relique.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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The Relic<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

BY JOHN DONNE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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When my grave is broke up again<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some second guest to entertain,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (For graves have learn’d that woman head,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To be to more than one a bed)<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And he that digs it, spies<\/div>\n
A bracelet of bright hair about the bone,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Will he not let’us alone,<\/div>\n
And think that there a loving couple lies,<\/div>\n
Who thought that this device might be some way<\/div>\n
To make their souls, at the last busy day,<\/div>\n
Meet at this grave, and make a little stay?<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0If this fall in a time, or land,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Where mis-devotion doth command,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Then he, that digs us up, will bring<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Us to the bishop, and the king,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To make us relics; then<\/div>\n
Thou shalt be a Mary Magdalen, and I<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A something else thereby;<\/div>\n
All women shall adore us, and some men;<\/div>\n
And since at such time miracles are sought,<\/div>\n
I would have that age by this paper taught<\/div>\n
What miracles we harmless lovers wrought.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0First, we lov’d well and faithfully,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Yet knew not what we lov’d, nor why;<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Difference of sex no more we knew<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Than our guardian angels do;<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Coming and going, we<\/div>\n
Perchance might kiss, but not between those meals;<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our hands ne’er touch’d the seals<\/div>\n
Which nature, injur’d by late law, sets free;<\/div>\n
These miracles we did, but now alas,<\/div>\n
All measure, and all language, I should pass,<\/div>\n
Should I tell what a miracle she was.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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From Poetryfoundation.org<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/podcast\/relique.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div>

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