Virus-free.www.avg.com RADIO ETHER PROGRAM TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FIVE (DARK ETHER #2) Darkness By Lord Byron (George Gordon) I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came, and went and came, and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in the dread Of this desolation; and all hearts Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light: And they did live by watchfires - and the thrones, The palaces of crowned kings, the huts, The habitations of all things which dwell, Were burnt for beacons; cities were consumed, And men were gathered round their blazing homes To look once more into each other's face; Happy were those who dwelt within the eye Of the volcanos, and their mountain-torch: A fearful hope was all the world contain'd; Forest were set on fire but hour by hour They fell and faded and the crackling trunks Extinguish'd with a crash and all was black. The brows of men by the despairing light Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits The flashes fell upon them; some lay down And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smiled; And others hurried to and fro, and fed Their funeral piles with fuel, and looked up With mad disquiet on the dull sky, The pall of a past world; and then again With curses cast them down upon the dust, And gnash'd their teeth and howl'd: the wild birds shriek'd, and, terrified, did flutter on the ground, And flap their useless wings; The wildest brutes Came tame and tremolous; and vipers crawl'd And twined themselves among the multitude, Hissing, but stingless, they were slain for food: And War, which for a moment was no more, Did glut himself again; a meal was bought With blood, and each sate sullenly apart Gorging himself in gloom: no love was left; All earth was but one thought and that was death, Immediate and inglorious; and the pang Of famine fed upon all entrails men Died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh; The meagre by the meagre were devoured, Even dogs assail'd their masters, all save one, And he was faithful to a corpse, and kept The birds and beasts and famish'd men at bay, Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead Lured their lank jaws; himself sought out no food, But with a piteous and perpetual moan And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand Which answered not with a caress, he died. The crowd was famish'd by degrees; but two Of an enormous city did survive, And they were enemies; they met beside The dying embers of an altar-place Where had been heap'd a mass of holy things For an unholy usage; they raked up, And shivering scraped with their cold skeleton hands The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew for a little life, and made a flame Which was a mockery; then they lifted up Their eyes as it grew lighter, and Each other's aspects saw, and shriek'd, and died, beheld Even of their mutual hideousness they died, Unknowing who he was upon whose brow Famine had written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless, A lump of death, a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes, and ocean stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd They slept on the abyss without a surge The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon their mistress had expired before; The winds were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them. She was the universe. DARKNESS 1 1. Intro 2. Darkness on the Edge of Town (Bruce Springsteen) - Bruce Springsteen [Darkness on the Edge of Town - Columbia - 1978] 3. Dancing in the Dark (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) - Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and His Orchestra and The Starlighters [Jo Stafford Sings Broadway's Best - Columbia - 1953] 4. Dark Moon (Ned Miller) (Home recording from 1966 or 1967) - Elvis Presley [A Golden Celebration - RCA Victor - 1984] 5. talk 6. Dark as a Dungeon (Merle Travis) (Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA – November 21, 1975 (evening)) - Bob Dylan & Joan Baez [The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings - Columbia, Legacy - 2019] 7. Dark Eyes (Arranged By - J. C. Mathis) (Recorded 18 October 1929 in Dallas, TX.) - Blind Jack Mathis [Shellac, 10", 78 RPM - Victor - 1930] 8. Dark Holler Blues (Trad.) (Recorded 23 October 1929 in Johnson City, TN.) - Clarence Ashley [Shellac, 10", 78 RPM - Columbia - 1929] 9. talk 10. In the Dark (Bix Beiderbecke) - Bunny Berigan and His Men [Shellac, 10", 78 RPM - Victor - 1938] 11. Not Dark Yet (Bob Dylan) - Tom Jones [Surrounded By Time (The Hourglass Edition) - EMI - 2021] 12. The Dark (Buddy Mondlock, Guy Clark) - Charlie Musselwhite [Mississippi Son - Alligator Records - 2022] 13. talk 14. Dark Globe (Syd Barrett) - Syd Barrett [Madcap Laughs - Harvest - 1970] 15. Dark Star (Stephen Sills) - Crosby, Stills & Nash [CSN - Atlantic - 1977] 16. Dark Horse (George Harrison) - George Harrison [Dark Horse - Apple Records - 1974] DARKNESS 2 17. talk 18. Romance in the Dark (Lil Green-Willie Broonzy) - Lil Green [Shellac, 10", 78 RPM - Bluebird - 1940] 19. Dark Island (Iain Maclachlan, Stewart Ross) - Fiona Kennedy [Round at Calum's - Pye Golden Guinea - 1969] 20. Dark Truths (Joan Armatrading) - Joan Armatrading [The Shouting Stage - A&M - 1988] 21. talk 22. Here in the Dark (Bernard Anders) - T-Bone Walker [Shellac, 78 RPM, Single - Imperial Records, Inc. - 1952] 23. Darkness, Darkness (Young) - The Youngbloods [Elephant Mountain - RCA Victor - 1969] 24. Fade to Black (Burton, Hetfield, Hammett, Ulrich) - Metallica [Ride the Lightning - Megaforce - 1984] (Remastered) 25. Outro 26. "Darkness" by Lord Byron (read by Tom O'Bedlam) [ETHER BONUS] 27. Not Dark Yet (Version 1) (Bob Dylan) - Bob Dylan [Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions 1996-1997 The Bootleg Series Vol. 17 (Deluxe Edition) - Legacy Recordings - 2023] [ETHER BONUS] DJ: Charles Cicirella Wednesday, April 1, 2026 Cleveland, Ohio Artwork included ENJOY! ONWARD-FORWARD-INFINITE