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The Tarn of Eternity

Chapter I · Chapter 1

Chapter 1 of The Tarn of Eternity is here in full — 263 sentences across 53 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By Frank Tymon • Curated US English Learning Edition

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Worldwide Book Rights (C) 1995 Frank Tymon (Previous title, "When the Water Lilies Bloom") Dry and sere it lies.

Where once beauty bloomed, weeds and briars grow, as grow untrimmed bushes once flowering plants.

They flower not.

Paths meander through the drear landscape.

In earlier time lovingly attended, now lie they under gray dust and blowing brown leaves.

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Chapter I Reading 1/52

The Tarn of Eternity

Chapter I · Chapter 1

Chapter 1 of The Tarn of Eternity is here in full — 263 sentences across 53 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/52 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

Worldwide Book Rights (C) 1995 Frank Tymon (Previous title, "When the Water Lilies Bloom") Dry and sere it lies.

Line 2

Where once beauty bloomed, weeds and briars grow, as grow untrimmed bushes once flowering plants.

Line 3

They flower not.

Line 4

Paths meander through the drear landscape.

Line 5

In earlier time lovingly attended, now lie they under gray dust and blowing brown leaves.

All words in this reading · 52

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1995

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and

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as

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attended

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beauty

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Bloom

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bloomed

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blowing

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Book

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briars

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brown

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bushes

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C

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drear

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Dry

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dust

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earlier

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flower

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flowering

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Frank

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gray

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grow

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In

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it

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landscape

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leaves

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lie

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lies

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Lilies

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lovingly

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meander

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not

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now

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once

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Paths

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plants

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Previous

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Rights

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sere

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the

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They

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through

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time

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title

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Tymon

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under

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untrimmed

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Water

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weeds

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When

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Where

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Worldwide

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From this reading Worldwide Book Rights (C) 1995 Frank Tymon (Previous title, "When the Water Lilies Bloom") Dry and sere it lies.

Chapter 1 of The Tarn of Eternity by Frank Tymon holds 263 sentences, grouped into 53 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

What does chapter 1 of The Tarn of Eternity contain?

Chapter 1 holds 263 sentences of The Tarn of Eternity, unabridged, divided into 53 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 1 of The Tarn of Eternity by Frank Tymon exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 263 sentences, grouped into 53 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.

How do I study chapter 1 of The Tarn of Eternity?

Work through the 53 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

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Can chapter 1 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 1 can be played aloud in United States English.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #822, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 600 minutes of reading across 1705 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Worldwide: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Tarn of Eternity; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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Frank: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Tarn of Eternity; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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