"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde, read by Mattie Overall.

The last work of Oscar Wilde's to be published in his lifetime, this epic, haunting poem recounts his experience in prison, and in particular his encounter with a man who is to be hanged. The poem is achingly sorrowful, at times searing and bitter, and entirely beautiful.

00:04:59 - Section I
00:08:41 - Section II
00:11:34 - Section III
00:19:57 - Section IV
00:25:12 - Section V
00:29:12 - Section VI

In Reading gaol by Reading town
There is a pit of shame,
And in it lies a wretched man
Eaten by teeth of flame,
In burning winding-sheet he lies,
And his grave has got no name.

And there, till Christ call forth the dead,
In silence let him lie:
No need to waste the foolish tear,
Or heave the windy sigh:
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.

And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!

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