HenryPlus, The Carrier's New-Year's Address (ca1823) 136 lines, 1021 words, 3742 phonemes, 245868 milliseconds PJ 1 Jan 1823
Festive strains salute my ear , F-EH-S-T-IH-V S-T-R-EY-N-Z S-AH-L-UW-T M-AY IY-R Strains that hail the new-born year ; S-T-R-EY-N-Z DH-AE-T HH-EY-L DH-AH N-UW-B-AO-R-N Y-IH-R In the boys what cheerful faces ! IH-N DH-AH B-OY-Z W-AH-T CH-IH-R-F-AH-L F-EY-S-AH-Z Girls display a thousand graces . G-ER-L-Z D-IH-S-P-L-EY AH TH-AW-Z-AH-N-D G-R-EY-S-IH-Z Merchants quit their stores awhile : M-ER-CH-AH-N-T-S K-W-IH-T DH-EH-R S-T-AO-R-Z AH-W-AY-L Stately matrons deign to smile . S-T-EY-T-L-IY M-EY-T-R-AH-N-Z D-EY-N T-UW S-M-AY-L Age itself forgets its care , EY-JH IH-T-S-EH-L-F F-ER-G-EH-T-S IH-T-S K-EH-R On this birthday of the year . AA-N DH-IH-S B-ER-TH-D-EY AH-V DH-AH Y-IH-R I alas ! must see all this , AY AH-L-AE-S M-AH-S-T S-IY AO-L DH-IH-S But forego the beck'ning bliss ; B-AH-T F-AO-R-G-OW DH-AH B-EH-K-N-IH-NG B-L-IH-S Duty calls me to your feet D-UW-T-IY K-AO-L-Z M-IY T-UW Y-AO-R F-IY-T With this reeking votive sheet : W-IH-DH DH-IH-S R-IY-K-IH-NG V-OW-T-IH-V SH-IY-T Oft before you have I stood AO-F-T B-IH-F-AO-R Y-UW HH-AE-V AY S-T-UH-D Bending low in gratitude : B-EH-N-D-IH-NG L-OW IH-N G-R-AE-T-AH-T-UW-D Pardon this my last endeavor , P-AA-R-D-AH-N DH-IH-S M-AY L-AE-S-T IH-N-D-EH-V-ER To obtain your smiles and favor . T-UW AH-B-T-EY-N Y-AO-R S-M-AY-L-Z AH-N-D F-EY-V-ER I could mention winter's terrors AY K-UH-D M-EH-N-SH-AH-N W-IH-N-T-ER-Z T-EH-R-ER-Z Speak of summer's torrid fervors , S-P-IY-K AH-V S-AH-M-ER-Z T-AO-R-AH-D F-ER-V-ER-Z Greet you with a thousand storms , G-R-IY-T Y-UW W-IH-DH AH TH-AW-Z-AH-N-D S-T-AO-R-M-Z Dangers in a thousand forms , D-EY-N-JH-ER-Z IH-N AH TH-AW-Z-AH-N-D F-AO-R-M-Z Ever frowning in the way EH-V-ER F-R-AW-N-IH-NG IH-N DH-AH W-EY On the news deliver day . AA-N DH-AH N-UW-Z D-IH-L-IH-V-ER D-EY But 'tis neither fair or witty B-AH-T T-IH-Z N-IY-DH-ER F-EH-R AO-R W-IH-T-IY Thus to urge my PATRONS' pity ; DH-AH-S T-UW ER-JH M-AY P-EY-T-R-AH-N-Z P-IH-T-IY Pity ! no , I here disclaim it , P-IH-T-IY N-OW AY HH-IY-R D-IH-S-K-L-EY-M IH-T You yourselves wont let me name it . Y-UW Y-UH-R-S-EH-L-V-Z W-OW-N-T L-EH-T M-IY N-EY-M IH-T On her MERIT rests thy Muse , AA-N HH-ER M-EH-R-AH-T R-EH-S-T-S DH-AY M-Y-UW-Z Grace her kindly if you choose . G-R-EY-S HH-ER K-AY-N-D-L-IY IH-F Y-UW CH-UW-Z As you have smiled on me may heaven smile upon you , AE-Z Y-UW HH-AE-V S-M-AY-L-D AA-N M-IY M-EY HH-EH-V-AH-N S-M-AY-L AH-P-AA-N Y-UW The sky o'er your heads be enchantingly blue , DH-AH S-K-AY AO-R Y-AO-R HH-EH-D-Z B-IY EH-N-CH-AE-N-T-IH-NG-L-IY B-L-UW The streamlets and rivers which flow at your feet DH-AH S-T-R-IY-M-L-EH-T-S AH-N-D R-IH-V-ER-Z W-IH-CH F-L-OW AE-T Y-AO-R F-IY-T Be smooth as the mirror , as the eglantine sweet , B-IY S-M-UW-DH AE-Z DH-AH M-IH-R-ER AE-Z DH-AH EH-G-L-AH-N-T-AY-N S-W-IY-T No thorn in the roses that lie in your road , N-OW TH-AO-R-N IH-N DH-AH R-OW-Z-IH-Z DH-AE-T L-AY IH-N Y-AO-R R-OW-D And the angel of PEACE hov'ring o'er your abode . AH-N-D DH-AH EY-N-JH-AH-L AH-V P-IY-S HH-AH-V-R-IH-NG AO-R Y-AO-R AH-B-OW-D