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Under the Light, yet under
Six poésies d’Emily Dickinson
pour deux mezzo-sopranos et piano
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Under the Light, yet under, Under the Grass and the Dirt,
Under the Beetle’s Cellar Under the Clover’s Root,
Further than Arm could stretch
Were it Giant long, Further than Sunshine could Were the Day Year long ;
Over the Light, yet over,
Over the Arc of the Bird – Over the Comet’s chimney –
Over the Cubit’s Head,
Further than Guess can gallop Further than Riddle ride –
Oh for a Disc to the Distance Between Ourselves and the Dead !
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There is a solitude of space A solitude of sea
A solitude of Death, but these Society shall be
Compared with that profounder site That polar privacy
A soul admitted to itself – 1696
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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee,
And revery, The revery alone will do,
If bees are few. 1779
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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant – Success in Circuit lies
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As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind –
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Fame is a bee, It has a song – It has a sting –
Ah, too, it has a wing. 1788
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Some things that fly there be – Birds – Hours – the Bumblebee –
Of these no Elegy.
Some things that stay there be – Grief – Hills – Eternity – Nor this behooveth me.
There are that resting, rise, Can I expound the skies ? How still the Riddle lies !
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Six poésies d'Emily Dickinson
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à Sylvie Ottoz et Alexandra Maillard
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