00:00I am the smartest and most talented children I've ever seen, so let's have another round of applause for the
00:06fifth grade of fire.
00:13My name is Sophia Holly Hill, and for tonight's recital, I have chosen Because I Could Not Stop for Death
00:19by the 19th century American poet, Emily Dickinson.
00:23Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me. The carriage held but just ourselves, an immortality.
00:30We slowly drove, he knew no haste, and I had put away my labor and my leisure, too.
00:46Since then, two centuries, and yet each seems shorter than the day, I first surmised the horse's heads were toward
00:53eternity.
00:54Thank you, Sophia. Let's give a hand.
00:56I'm not done yet.
00:59I will now recite the exact same passage in Mandarin.
01:02I will now recite the same passage in Mandarin.
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