The Butterfly in honored Dust
Assuredly will lie
But none will pass the Catacomb
So chastened as the Fly -

Confirmed with The Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. R.W. Franklin, Volume 3, Cambridge, MA and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998, Poem 1305 (Version B).

Composition:

Set to music by Julian Philips (b. 1969), "The butterfly", 1997/2002, published 2007 [ high voice and piano ], from An Amherst Bestiary, no. 17, Peters Edition

Text Authorship:

• by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• GER German (Deutsch) (Sharon Krebs) , "Der Schmetterling", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2014-08-28
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