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NSFW, and if you are for some reason offended by the sight of unclothed human beings, you'll want to watch something else.

Nic Sebastian's reading of H.D.'s 1919 poem appears at Pizzicati of Hosanna: pizzicatiofhosanna.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/orchard-by-hilda-doolittle/
Here's the text:

I saw the first pear
As it fell --
The honey-seeking, golden-banded,
The yellow swarm
Was not more fleet than I,
(Spare us from loveliness)
And I fell prostrate
Crying:
You have flayed us
With your blossoms,
Spare us the beauty
Of fruit-trees.

The honey-seeking
Paused not,
The air thundered their song,
And I alone was prostrate.

O rough-hewn
God of the orchard,
I bring you an offering --
Do you, alone unbeautiful,
Son of the god,
Spare us from loveliness:

These fallen hazel-nuts,
Stripped late of their green sheaths,
Grapes, red-purple,
Their berries
Dripping with wine,
Pomegranates already broken,
And shrunken figs
And quinces untouched,
I bring you as offering.

The soundtrack includes a snippet from "Creation VI - Akhet" by piedpaper (Tim Six) on SoundCloud,
soundcloud.com/piedpaper/creation-6-akhet
which is licensed Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike under the Creative Commons. The video includes snips from someone's old home videotape, uploaded anonymously to the Community Audio section of archive.org and therefore under the public domain, as I uderstand it. The rest of the video, editing, etc, are by me.

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