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Tell Me A Story by Robert Penn Warren read by Matthew Hannibal Butler

Tell Me A Story by Robert Penn Warren read by Matthew Hannibal Butler

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Tell Me a Story

Robert Penn Warren - 1905-1989



[ A ]


Long ago, in Kentucky, I, a boy, stood

By a dirt road, in first dark, and heard

The great geese hoot northward.


I could not see them, there being no moon

And the stars sparse. I heard them.


I did not know what was happening in my heart.


It was the season before the elderberry blooms,

Therefore they were going north.


The sound was passing northward.


 


[ B ]


Tell me a story.


In this century, and moment, of mania,

Tell me a story.


Make it a story of great distances, and starlight.


The name of the story will be Time,

But you must not pronounce its name.


Tell me a story of deep delight.


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