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This is Windows MediaPlayer - push play and the poem will play as it downloads - this is called streaming audio.	This is the Quicktime player - it also seems to stream the audio - watch the download progress in the indicator bar.

If the poem skips during the 1st playing let the whole poem play and then run it again - the skips will disappear	If the poem skips just hit stop then run it again and it won't skip -there is a volume control at the extreme left of this control
An Epitaph -Stephen Hawes Stephen Hawes d. 1523 O MORTAL folk, you may behold and see How I lie here, sometime a mighty knight; The end of joy and all prosperitee Is death at last, thorough his course and might! After the day there cometh the dark night, For though the day be never so long, At last the bells ringeth to evensong.
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