by Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)

Language: English 
A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, 
it is trimmed by the little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserved and loud volumes.
It is surely cohesive.
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    Set to music by Michael Ippolito (b. 1985), "A Feather", 2018 [ soprano and piano ], from Vanitas, no. 5, confirmed with a score

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This text was added to the website: 2018-08-19
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