The Lady of Shalott

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0:00:05 > 0:00:10Hello! Come on, everybody, take a seat.

0:00:13 > 0:00:14Woo!

0:00:14 > 0:00:16BOTH: Hello!

0:00:16 > 0:00:18- BOTH:- Hello!

0:00:18 > 0:00:21Wiggle your fingers and cross your feet.

0:00:25 > 0:00:26Are you ready?

0:00:26 > 0:00:31One, two, three, watch me.

0:00:31 > 0:00:35Four, five, six, I've got some tricks.

0:00:37 > 0:00:42Seven, eight, nine, it's almost time.

0:00:42 > 0:00:43Ten!

0:00:43 > 0:00:45ALL: Magic hands!

0:00:46 > 0:00:49# Just look at my magic

0:00:49 > 0:00:51# My magic hands

0:00:51 > 0:00:54# Make your fingers super-duper. #

0:00:54 > 0:00:56Magic Hands!

0:01:01 > 0:01:02BOTH: Hello!

0:01:02 > 0:01:05My name is A-I-M-E-E, Aimee.

0:01:07 > 0:01:11And my name is A-S-H-L-E-Y, Ashley.

0:01:12 > 0:01:14Look at what my hands can do.

0:01:17 > 0:01:21Wow, what a beautiful mirror.

0:01:21 > 0:01:24I wonder if it has magical powers?

0:01:27 > 0:01:33Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the handsomest presenter of them all?

0:01:40 > 0:01:42Me.

0:01:42 > 0:01:44Hmm.

0:01:44 > 0:01:48That reminds me of a poem about a lady who lived in a tower,

0:01:48 > 0:01:51and the only way she could look at the world was through

0:01:51 > 0:01:55a reflection in a magic mirror.

0:01:55 > 0:01:59If she looked at the world any way other than through

0:01:59 > 0:02:02her magic mirror, something bad would happen.

0:02:03 > 0:02:06The poem was written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

0:02:06 > 0:02:10and it's called The Lady Of Shalott.

0:02:10 > 0:02:12Are you ready?

0:02:34 > 0:02:39How pretty, but I think we can make it more interesting.

0:02:42 > 0:02:45On either side the river lie

0:02:45 > 0:02:49Long fields of barley and of rye,

0:02:49 > 0:02:52That clothe the wold and meet the sky.

0:02:53 > 0:02:56And through the field the road runs by

0:02:56 > 0:02:58To many-towered Camelot.

0:03:00 > 0:03:02And up and down the people go,

0:03:02 > 0:03:04Gazing where the lilies blow

0:03:06 > 0:03:08Round an island there below,

0:03:10 > 0:03:13The island of Shalott.

0:03:18 > 0:03:23Willows whiten, aspens quiver,

0:03:25 > 0:03:28Little breezes dusk and shiver

0:03:30 > 0:03:34Through the wave that runs for ever

0:03:34 > 0:03:37By the island in the river

0:03:37 > 0:03:40flowing down to Camelot.

0:03:43 > 0:03:47Four grey walls and four grey towers

0:03:48 > 0:03:51Overlook a space of flowers,

0:03:53 > 0:03:55And the silent isle imbowers

0:03:55 > 0:03:58The Lady of Shalott.

0:04:08 > 0:04:12There she weaves by night and day

0:04:12 > 0:04:15A magic web with colours gay.

0:04:18 > 0:04:21She has heard a whisper say,

0:04:21 > 0:04:23A curse is on her if she stay

0:04:24 > 0:04:27To look down to Camelot.

0:04:30 > 0:04:33She knows not what the curse may be,

0:04:33 > 0:04:36And so she weaveth steadily,

0:04:36 > 0:04:39And little other care hath she,

0:04:39 > 0:04:41The Lady of Shalott.

0:04:48 > 0:04:51And moving through a mirror clear

0:04:51 > 0:04:55That hangs before her all the year,

0:04:55 > 0:04:58Shadows of the world appear.

0:04:58 > 0:05:02There she sees the highway near

0:05:02 > 0:05:05Winding down to Camelot.

0:05:07 > 0:05:10There the river eddy whirls,

0:05:11 > 0:05:14And there surly village-churls,

0:05:18 > 0:05:21And the red cloaks of market girls,

0:05:21 > 0:05:23Pass onward from Shalott.

0:05:32 > 0:05:36A bow-shot from her bower-eaves,

0:05:37 > 0:05:40He rode between the barley-sheaves,

0:05:42 > 0:05:47The sun came dazzling through the leaves,

0:05:47 > 0:05:52And flamed upon the brazen greaves

0:05:52 > 0:05:54of bold Sir Lancelot.

0:05:59 > 0:06:04A red-cross knight for ever kneeled

0:06:04 > 0:06:08to a lady in his shield,

0:06:08 > 0:06:12that sparkled on the yellow field,

0:06:12 > 0:06:15beside remote Shalott.

0:06:22 > 0:06:26His broad clear brow in sunlight glowed,

0:06:26 > 0:06:29On burnished hooves his war-horse trode,

0:06:29 > 0:06:32From underneath his helmet flowed,

0:06:32 > 0:06:36His coal-black curls as on he rode,

0:06:36 > 0:06:39As he rode down to Camelot.

0:06:40 > 0:06:43From the bank and from the river,

0:06:43 > 0:06:46He flashed into the crystal mirror,

0:06:48 > 0:06:51"Tirra lirra," by the river

0:06:51 > 0:06:53Sang Sir Lancelot.

0:06:58 > 0:07:01She left the web, she left the loom,

0:07:01 > 0:07:05She made three paces through the room,

0:07:05 > 0:07:10She saw the water-lily bloom,

0:07:10 > 0:07:13She saw the helmet and the plume,

0:07:13 > 0:07:16She looked down to Camelot.

0:07:19 > 0:07:22Out flew the web and floated wide,

0:07:22 > 0:07:27The mirror cracked from side to side,

0:07:27 > 0:07:30"The curse has come upon me!" cried

0:07:30 > 0:07:32The Lady of Shalott.

0:07:39 > 0:07:42In the stormy east-wind straining,

0:07:42 > 0:07:45The pale yellow woods were waning,

0:07:45 > 0:07:50The broad stream in his banks complaining,

0:07:50 > 0:07:53Heavily the low sky raining

0:07:53 > 0:07:55Over towered Camelot.

0:08:00 > 0:08:04Down she came and found a boat

0:08:04 > 0:08:07Beneath a willow, left afloat,

0:08:10 > 0:08:13And round about the prow she wrote

0:08:15 > 0:08:18"The Lady of Shalott".

0:08:26 > 0:08:29Lying, robed in snowy white

0:08:29 > 0:08:33That loosely flew to left and right,

0:08:33 > 0:08:37The leaves upon her falling light,

0:08:37 > 0:08:39Through the noises of the night

0:08:39 > 0:08:42She floated down to Camelot.

0:08:47 > 0:08:49And as the boat-head wound along

0:08:49 > 0:08:53The willowy hills and fields among,

0:08:53 > 0:08:57They heard her singing her last song,

0:08:57 > 0:09:00The Lady of Shalott.

0:09:06 > 0:09:08That poem was beautiful.

0:09:08 > 0:09:13Beautiful, but also sad. But it's OK sometimes to be sad.

0:09:13 > 0:09:17Like, if my mum tells me off, that makes me sad and that's OK.

0:09:17 > 0:09:21Your mum still tells you off? But you're really old!

0:09:21 > 0:09:24Oh, yes, she tells me off all the time.

0:09:24 > 0:09:28I get sad when I argue with my friends, but when we make up,

0:09:28 > 0:09:30I'm happy again.

0:09:30 > 0:09:35When you're sad, what can you do to cheer yourself up?

0:09:43 > 0:09:44- BOTH:- Bye-bye!

0:09:46 > 0:09:48Magic hands!

0:09:49 > 0:09:52# Just look at my magic

0:09:52 > 0:09:54# My magic hands

0:09:54 > 0:09:58# Make your fingers super-duper. #

0:09:58 > 0:09:59Magic Hands!