16 seconds sound clip from the The Snow Goose (1954) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:02:13 in the radio play.
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- The marsh is desolate, utterly lonely, and made lonelier by the calls and cries of the wild fowl that make their homes in the saltings.
- Wild geese and the gulls, the teal, the wigeon, the red shanks and curlews that pick their ways through the tidal pools.
- Like a lonely sentinel in the emptiness, there stands the squat white ruin of an abandoned lighthouse, close by the mouth of the river Ailder.
- Lately, it has served again as an human habitation.
- It is the home of a man, a hunchback, but a man who creates great beauty, the painter Philip Rhayader.
- Just a touch more. Bring up the... Perhaps one more silhouette to carry you over from one to the other, like that. Yes, like that.
- Good lord, company. Who the devil can that be? First visitor in over two years... Wait a minute! Where's that rag?
- Well, good heavens. What have you got there, child? A goose?
- I found it, sir.
- It's hurted. Is it still alive?
- Yes, yes, I think so. Come in, child, come in.
- Where did you find it?
- In marsh, sir, where parlours have been. What is it, sir?
- Well, it's a... It's a snow goose from Canada. How in all heaven did it get here?
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