by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962)
into the strenuous briefness Matches base text
Language: English
into the strenuous briefness Life: handorgans and April darkness, friends i charge laughing. Into the hair-thin tints of yellow dawn, into the women-coloured twilight i smilingly glide. I into the big vermilion departure swim, sayingly; (Do you think?) the i do, world is probably made of roses & hello: (of solongs and, ashes)
First published as "I" in The Dial, Vol. 68, No. 5 (May 1920)
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Composition:
- Set to music by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "into the strenuous briefness ", 2008 [ medium voice and piano ]
Text Authorship:
- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title
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Word count: 53