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.
Lovesongs and Observations
Song Cycle by Rhian Samuel (b. 1944)
2. To make a prairie [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems: Third Series, in 3. Nature, no. 15, first published 1896
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Confirmed with Poems by Emily Dickinson. Third Series, ed by Mabel Loomis Todd, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896.
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