Cowboy Classics with Scott Paladin

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

2 years ago
Transcript
Speaker A:

Audi partners.

Speaker B:

Welcome to Cowboy Classics with Scott Balladin.

Speaker A:

Tonight's episode of Valediction Forbidden Warning.

Speaker B:

As virtuous men pass mildly away and.

Speaker A:

Whisper to their souls to go while.

Speaker B:

Some of their sad friends do say.

Speaker A:

The breath goes now, some say no.

Speaker B:

So let us melt and make no noise, no tear floods, or saw tempest.

Speaker A:

Move toward prefination of our joys to tell the laity our love.

Speaker B:

Movement of.

Speaker A:

The earth brings harms and fears men.

Speaker B:

Reckon what it did and meant.

Speaker A:

But trepidation of the spheres, though greater far is innocent, dull, subblunary lovers. Love, whose soul is sense, cannot emit absence, because it doth remove those things which elemented it.

Speaker B:

But we by love so much refined.

Speaker A:

That ourselves know not what it is, enter assured of the mind, care less eyes, lips and hands to miss our two souls, therefore, which are one, the.

Speaker B:

Y must go, and are not yet.

Speaker A:

A breach, but an expansion, like gold to area thinness beat. But if they be two, they are two so as stiff twin compasses, or two by soul the fixed foot makes no show to move, but doth if the other do. And though it in the center sit, when the other far doth roam, it leans and arcans after it, and grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me who must, like the other foot obliquely run. Thy firmness makes my circle just, and makes me end where I've gone.

Speaker C:

Thank you for joining us for this episode of Cowboy Classics with Scott Paladin. Our work tonight was a valediction forbidden morning by John Dunn. Produced, edited and read by Scott Paladin. Audio copyright 2022 Scott Paladin.

Meet me at the pier and hear John Donne's lament for leaving one's love.

Scott Paladin