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Vitai Lampada

Sir Henry Newbolt

Length: 16 min
Chapters: 10
Language: English
Genre: Poetry, Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
First published: 1897

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Vitai Lampada by Sir Henry Newbolt.

'Vitai lampada' is a quotation from De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe) by Lucretius and literally means 'The torch of life.'

This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 17th, 2010.

Chapters

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