'On first looking into Chapman's Homer', a reading by Saturn of the poem by John Keats. Additional music by adonais.
Story behind the song
This reading was one of the first that Saturn posted on the Keats web forum at www.john-keats.com (original recording available at http://www.putfile.com/saturn1). I liked it so much that I decided to put some background music to it.
Lyrics
Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft on one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific - and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
(John Keats, Poems 1817)
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