Alfonso Churchill

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This is from Edgar Lee Master's \"Spoon River Anthology\". A collection of free verse poetry telling the individual stories of citizens of the town Spoon River at the turn of the 19th century. I remember performing several of the poems in a play based on the book in college. This was one of them.

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Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Senior (55+)

Accents

North American (General) North American (US Mid-Atlantic)

Transcript

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They laughed at me as Professor Moon as a boy in Spoon River, born with the thirst of knowing about the stars. They jeered when I spoke of the Lunar Mountains and the thrilling heat and cold into the urban valleys by silver peaks and speaker quadrillions of miles away and the little nous of man. But now that my grave is honored, friends, let it not be because I taught the Lord of the Stars and Knox College, but rather for this that through the stars I preached the greatness of men who was nonetheless a part of the scheme of things for the distance of spiker or the spiral nebula, nor any less a part of the question of what the drama means.