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[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "when i heard him preach in his own church at morton i wish i could describe that sermon but it is past my power i cannot even render faithfully the effect it produced on me", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "it began calm and indeed as far as delivery and pitch of voice went it was calm to the end an earnestly felt yet strictly restrained zeal breathed soon in the distinct accents and prompted the nervous language", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "this grew to force compressed condensed controlled the heart was thrilled the mind astonished by the power of the preacher neither were softened throughout there was a strange bitterness an absence of consolatory gentleness", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "stern allusions to calvinistic doctrines election predestination reprobation were frequent and each reference to these points sounded like a sentence pronounced for doom", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "had sprung from a depth where lay turbid dregs of disappointment where moved troubling impulses of insatiate yearnings and disquieting aspirations", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "zealous as he was had not yet found that peace of god which passeth all understanding he had no more found it i thought than had i with my concealed and racking regrets for my broken idol and lost elysium", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "regrets to which i have latterly avoided referring but which possessed me and tyrannised over me ruthlessly meantime a month was gone", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "as governesses in a large fashionable south of england city where each held a situation in families", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "and appreciated only their acquired accomplishments as they appreciated the skill of their cook or the taste of their waiting woman", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "about the employment he had promised to obtain for me yet it became urgent that i should have a vocation of some kind one morning being left alone with him a few minutes in the parlour i ventured to approach the window recess", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "when he saved me the trouble by being the first to commence a dialogue", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "you have a question to ask of me he said yes i wish to know whether you have heard of any service i can offer myself to undertake i found or devised something for you three weeks ago but as you seemed both useful and happy here", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "as my sisters had evidently become attached to you and your society gave them unusual pleasure i deemed it inexpedient to break in on your mutual comfort till their approaching departure from marsh end should render yours necessary", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "and they will go in three days now i said yes and when they go i shall return to the parsonage at morton hannah will accompany me and this old house will be shut up", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i waited a few moments expecting he would go on with the subject first broached but he seemed to have entered another train of reflection his look denoted abstraction from me and my business", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "one of close and anxious interest to me what is the employment you had in view mister rivers i hope this delay will not have increased the difficulty of securing it", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "oh no since it is an employment which depends only on me to give and you to accept", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "one ah little recks the laborer how near his work is holding him to god the loving laborer through space and time after all not to create only or found only", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "but to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded to give it our own identity average limitless free to fill the gross the torpid bulk with vital religious fire not to repel or destroy so much", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "as accept fuse rehabilitate to obey as well as command to follow more than to lead these also are the lessons of our new world while how little the new after all", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "how much the old old world long and long has the grass been growing long and long has the rain been falling long has the globe been rolling round", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "two come muse migrate from greece and ionia cross out please those immensely overpaid accounts", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "that matter of troy and achilles wrath", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "placard removed and to let on the rocks of your snowy parnassus repeat at jerusalem place the notice high on jaffa's gate", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "the same on the walls of your german french and spanish castles and italian collections for know a better fresher busier sphere", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "demands you three responsive to our summons or rather to her long nurs'd inclination", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "eyes a turning rolling upon this very scene the dame of dames can i believe then those ancient temples sculptures classic could none of them retain her", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "nor shades of virgil and dante nor myriad memories poems old associations magnetize and hold on to her but that she's left them all and here", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yes if you will allow me to say so i my friends if you do not can plainly see her the same undying soul of earth's activity's beauty's heroism's expression", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "out from her evolutions hither come ended the strata of her former themes hidden and cover'd by to day's foundation of to day's ended deceas'd through time her voice by castaly's fountain", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "silent the broken lipp'd sphynx in egypt silent all those century baffling tombs", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "europe's helmeted warriors ended the primitive call of the muses calliope's call forever closed clio melpomene thalia dead ended the stately rhythmus of una and oriana", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "ended the quest of the holy graal jerusalem a handful of ashes blown by the wind extinct", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "to its charnel vault coffin'd with crown and armor on blazon'd with shakspere's purple page and dirged by tennyson's sweet sad rhyme i say i see", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "my friends if you do not the illustrious emigre having it is true in her day although the same changed journey'd considerable making directly for this rendezvous vigorously clearing a path for herself", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "striding through the confusion by thud of machinery and shrill steam whistle undismay'd bluff'd not a bit by drain pipe gasometers artificial fertilizers", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "don't i forget my manners to introduce the stranger what else indeed do i live to chant for to thee columbia in liberty's name welcome immortal clasp hands", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "and ever henceforth sisters dear be both fear not o muse", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "surround you i candidly confess a queer queer race of novel fashion and yet the same old human race the same within without faces and hearts the same feelings the same", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yearnings the same the same old love beauty and use the same five we do not blame thee elder world", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "nor really separate ourselves from thee would the son separate himself from the father looking back on thee seeing thee to thy duties grandeurs through past ages bending building we build", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "to ours to day mightier than egypt's tombs fairer than grecia's roma's temples prouder than milan's statued spired cathedral more picturesque than rhenish castle keeps", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "we plan even now to raise beyond them all thy great cathedral sacred industry no tomb a keep for life for practical invention as in a waking vision", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "its manifold ensemble around a palace loftier fairer ampler than any yet earth's modern wonder history's seven outstripping high rising tier on tier with", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "glass and iron facades gladdening the sun and sky enhued in cheerfulest hues bronze lilac robin's egg marine and crimson over whose golden roof shall flaunt beneath thy banner freedom", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "the banners of the states and flags of every land a brood of lofty fair but lesser palaces shall cluster somewhere within their walls", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "shall all that forwards perfect human life be started tried taught advanced visibly exhibited not only all the world of works trade products", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "but all the workmen of the world here to be represented here shall you trace in flowing operation in every state of practical busy movement the rills of civilization", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "materials here under your eye shall change their shape as if by magic the cotton shall be pick'd almost in the very field shall be dried clean'd ginn'd baled spun into thread and cloth before you", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "you shall see hands at work at all the old processes and all the new ones you shall see the various grains and how flour is made and then bread baked by the bakers you shall see the crude ores of california", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "and learn what a composing stick is you shall mark in amazement the hoe press whirling its cylinders shedding the printed leaves steady and fast the photograph model watch pin nail shall be created before you", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "in large calm halls a stately museum shall teach you the infinite lessons of minerals in another woods plants vegetation shall be illustrated in another animals animal life and development", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "one stately house shall be the music house others for other arts learning the sciences shall all be here none shall be slighted none but shall here be honor'd help'd exampled", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "six this this and these america shall be your pyramids and obelisks your alexandrian pharos gardens of babylon your temple at olympia", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "and here shall ye inhabit powerful matrons in your vast state vaster than all the old echoed through long long centuries to come to sound of different prouder songs", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "with stronger themes practical peaceful life the people's life the people themselves lifted illumin'd bathed in peace elate secure in peace", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "away with war itself hence from my shuddering sight to never more return that show of blacken'd mutilated corpses that hell unpent and raid of blood", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "thy bugles sounding loud and clear away with old romance away with novels plots and plays of foreign courts away with love verses sugar'd in rhyme", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "the intrigues amours of idlers fitted for only banquets of the night where dancers to late music slide the unhealthy pleasures extravagant dissipations of the few with perfumes", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "heat and wine beneath the dazzling chandeliers to you ye reverent sane sisters i raise a voice for far superber themes for poets and for art to exalt the present and the real", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "to teach the average man the glory of his daily walk and trade to sing in songs how exercise and chemical life are never to be baffled to manual work for each and all to plough hoe dig", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "to plant and tend the tree the berry vegetables flowers for every man to see to it that he really do something for every woman too to use the hammer and the saw rip or cross cut to cultivate a", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "turn for carpentering plastering painting to work as tailor tailoress nurse hostler porter to invent a little something ingenious to aid the washing cooking cleaning", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "to take a hand at them themselves i say i bring thee muse to day and here all occupations duties broad and close toil", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "healthy toil and sweat endless without cessation the old old practical burdens interests joys the family parentage childhood husband and wife the house comforts the house itself and all its belongings", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "food and its preservation chemistry applied to it whatever forms the average strong complete sweet blooded man or woman the perfect longeve personality", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "and helps its present life to health and happiness and shapes its soul for the eternal real life to come with latest connections works the inter transportation of the world steam power", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "the great express lines gas petroleum these triumphs of our time the atlantic's delicate cable the pacific railroad the suez canal the mont cenis and gothard and hoosac tunnels", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "the brooklyn bridge this earth all spann'd with iron rails with lines of steamships threading in every sea our own rondure the", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "and thou america thy offspring towering e'er so high yet higher thee above all towering with victory on thy left and at thy right hand law thou union", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "holding all fusing absorbing tolerating all thee ever thee i sing thou also thou a world with all thy wide geographies manifold different distant rounded by thee in one", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "one common orbic language one common indivisible destiny for all and by the spells which ye vouchsafe to those your ministers in earnest", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i here personify and call my themes to make them pass before ye behold america and thou ineffable guest and sister", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "for thee come trooping up thy waters and thy lands behold thy fields and farms thy far off woods and mountains as in procession coming behold the sea itself and on its limitless", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "heaving breast the ships see where their white sails bellying in the wind speckle the green and blue see the steamers coming and going steaming in or out of port see dusky and undulating", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "the long pennants of smoke behold in oregon far in the north and west or in maine far in the north and east thy cheerful axemen wielding all day their axes behold on the lakes", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "thy pilots at their wheels thy oarsmen how the ash writhes under those muscular arms there by the furnace and there by the anvil", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "swinging their sledges overhand so steady overhand they turn and fall with joyous clank like a tumult of laughter mark the spirit of invention everywhere thy rapid patents", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "thy continual workshops foundries risen or rising see from their chimneys how the tall flame fires stream mark thy interminable farms north south", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "thy wealthy daughter states eastern and western the varied products of ohio pennsylvania missouri georgia texas and the rest thy limitless crops grass wheat sugar oil corn rice hemp", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "hops thy barns all fill'd the endless freight train and the bulging store house the grapes that ripen on thy vines the apples in thy orchards thy incalculable lumber beef pork", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "potatoes thy coal thy gold and silver the inexhaustible iron in thy mines", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "protectress absolute thou bulwark of all for well we know that while thou givest each and all generous as god without thee neither all nor each nor land home", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "nor ship nor mine nor any here this day secure nor aught nor any day secure", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "and thou the emblem waving over all delicate beauty a word to thee it may be salutary", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "remember thou hast not always been as here to day so comfortably ensovereign'd in other scenes than these have i observ'd thee flag not quite so trim and whole", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "and freshly blooming in folds of stainless silk but i have seen thee bunting to tatters torn upon thy splinter'd staff or clutch'd to some young color bearer's breast with desperate hands", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "savagely struggled for for life or death fought over long mid cannons thunder crash and many a curse and groan and yell and rifle volleys cracking sharp and moving masses as wild demons surging", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "and lives as nothing risk'd for thy mere remnant grimed with dirt and smoke and sopp'd in blood for sake of that my beauty and that thou might'st dally as now secure up there", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "many a good man have i seen go under now here and these and hence in peace all thine o flag and here and hence for thee o universal muse and thou for them", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "and here and hence o union all the work and workmen thine none separate from thee henceforth one only we and thou for the blood of the children what is it only the blood maternal", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "and lives and works what are they all at last except the roads to faith and death while we rehearse our measureless wealth", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "we own it all and several", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "think not our chant our show merely for products gross or lucre it is for thee the soul in thee electric spiritual", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "a california song a prophecy and indirection a thought impalpable to breathe as air a chorus of dryads fading departing or hamadryads departing", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "a murmuring fateful giant voice out of the earth and sky", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "in the redwood forest dense farewell my brethren farewell o earth and sky farewell ye neighboring waters my time has ended", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "my term has come along the northern coast just back from the rock bound shore and the caves in the saline air from the sea in the mendocino country", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "with the surge for base and accompaniment low and hoarse with crackling blows of axes sounding musically driven by strong arms riven deep by the sharp tongues of the axes there in the redwood forest dense", "role": "assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Repeat after me in English: <|audio|>", "role": "user" }, { "content": "chanting the choppers heard not the camp shanties echoed not the quick ear'd teamsters and chain and jack screw men heard not as the wood spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years to join the refrain", "role": "assistant" } ]