This is a recitation of a poem by Elizabeth Barrette (http://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/. The music accompanying it is excerpted from the 1917 song "Danmark i Tusind År" by Valdemar Rørdam and Carl Nielsen. In the song, all the sleeping heroes of ancient times awake to solve the seemingly-intractable problems of global at the December 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference. The lyrics can be read at http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=109989787&blogId=520998087.

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