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For a Frontier

Song Cycle by Sarah Nemtsov (b. 1980)

1.   [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
I am afraid to own a Body –
I am afraid to own a Soul –
Profound – precarious Property –
Possession, not optional –

Double Estate – entailed at pleasure
Upon an unsuspecting Heir –
Duke in a moment of Deathlessness
And God, for a Frontier.

Text Authorship:

  • by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

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Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

2.
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Not knowing when the Dawn will come,
I open every Door,
Or has it Feathers, like a Bird,
Or Billows, like a Shore –

Text Authorship:

  • by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

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Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
Total word count: 71
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