This video features a poetry recital by a female reader with an American accent. The woman's voice is breathy, meditative and mellifluous.
The poem read aloud is "No Coward Soul Is Mine" by the English poet Emily Brontë (1818–1848).
The full text of the poem is given below.
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No coward soul is mine
No trembler in the worldʼs storm-troubled sphere
I see Heavenʼs glories shine
And Faith shines equal arming me from Fear
O God within my breast
Almighty ever-present Deity
Life, that in me hast rest,
As I Undying Life, have power in Thee
Vain are the thousand creeds
That move menʼs hearts, unutterably vain,
Worthless as withered weeds
Or idlest froth amid the boundless main
To waken doubt in one
Holding so fast by thy infinity,
So surely anchored on
The steadfast rock of Immortality.
With wide-embracing love
Thy spirit animates eternal years
Pervades and broods above,
Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates and rears
Though earth and moon were gone
And suns and universes ceased to be
And Thou wert left alone
Every Existence would exist in thee
There is not room for Death
Nor atom that his might could render void
Since thou art Being and Breath
And what thou art may never be destroyed.
