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    Hot, orange tulips in the park

    Fingers twitching. Eyes searching for nothing in particular.

    Clutching a book with my right hand, I slipped on my favorite pair of ballerinas. The breeze was still going on hard, but I braced myself to drink in the sunlight. Father was tending to the vegetables, making sure the fragile sprouts would withstand a whipping breeze or two. I skidded to a stop beside him and gave him a cheery hi. He wondered what I was on about bouncing around in the garden like a nuts. Truth to be told, I couldn’t be still. Restless. That was it. Right from the moment when I lifted my pen off the last exam paper earlier this afternoon. Restless. And free. Done with all written exams. Done with the burden, free to spend my time as I wish!

    The weather was perfect and I wished so longingly for someone to share it all with, someone that I could enjoy a cold glass of homemade lemon limonade with under our blooming apple trees. But people live too far away to just pop by, and the closest one was busy studying.

    Akk. But I was still druggishly happy :)

    A silly recitation of William Wordsworth’s The Solitary Reaper done in a moment of great adoration. Correctly pronounced English not guaranteed, proceed on your own risk.

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    Listening: Secret Garden – Nocturne (with Anne akle)
    Reading: The Dead Girls’ Dance (The Morganville Vampires Book Two) by Rachel Caine (Am. fantasy) – Can’t believe I stayed up ’till 5 AM reading despite having an exam only hours later
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      • ]]>       Read through it, and don’t tell me you don’t love it. This poem was actually a part of my three-part English Literature and Culture exam today. Give an analysis of the poem and discuss the typical romantic feattures present. I must admit that I analyze poems better than anything, but I tend to be too detailed in my quest of unlocking the secrets contained in mere lines. Seeing how the time was ticking away and threatening to smother my sanity, I decided against it and picked a quicker alternative; analyzing the protagonists of an extract from a novel. Could easily have cost me a grade, but it’s better than loosing a grade or two for not finishing your paper, don’t you think?

      I managed to at least scramble down the title and author before the guard snatched my exam papers away due to time being up. Oh, how I love the Romantic Age!


      The Solitary Reaper

      BEHOLD her, single in the field,
      Yon solitary Highland Lass!
      Reaping and singing by herself;
      Stop here, or gently pass!
      Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
      And sings a melancholy strain;
      O listen! for the Vale profound
      Is overflowing with the sound.

      No Nightingale did ever chaunt
      More welcome notes to weary bands
      Of travellers in some shady haunt,
      Among Arabian sands:
      A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard
      In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,
      Breaking the silence of the seas
      Among the farthest Hebrides.

      Will no one tell me what she sings?
      Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
      For old, unhappy, far-off things,
      And battles long ago:
      Or is it some more humble lay,
      Familiar matter of to-day?
      Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
      That has been, and may be again?

      Whate’er the theme, the Maiden sang
      As if her song could have no ending;
      I saw her singing at her work,
      And o’er the sickle bending;
      I listened, motionless and still;
      And, as I mounted up the hill
      The music in my heart I bore,
      Long after it was heard no more.

      – William Wordsworth

      Listening: Alexander Rybak – Funny Little World
      Reading: Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires Book One) by Rachel Caine (Am. fantasy) – Trying out Lutten’s recommendations!
      Watching: Angelic Layer. HA. HA.

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