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 "Stanzas" by the English poet Emily Brontë (1818–1848).

The full text of the poem is given below.

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Iʼll not weep that thou art going to leave me,
Thereʼs nothing lovely here;
And doubly will the dark world grieve me,
While thy heart suffers there.

Iʼll not weep, because the summerʼs glory
Must always end in gloom;
And, follow out the happiest story—
It closes with a tomb!

And I am weary of the anguish
Increasing winters bear;
Weary to watch the spirit languish
Through years of dead despair.

So, if a tear, when thou art dying,
Should haply fall from me,
It is but that my soul is sighing,
To go and rest with thee.

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