Atop the skin
Language: English
Atop the skin, Pink in chagrin, The lines drawn in Show where it’s been. And like with time Each pointless rhyme Will illustrate now’s idle sin.
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Amy Gordon , no title [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from The Astral Sense i, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2026-08-29
Line count: 7
Word count: 26