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He scanned it -- staggered -- Dropped the Loop To Past or Period -- Caught helpless at a sense as if His Mind were going blind -- Groped up, to see if God was there -- Groped backward at Himself Caressed a Trigger absently And wandered out of Life.
Authorship
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by Leon Kirchner (b. 1919), "1062", 1982 [soprano and piano], from The Twilight Stood, no. 2. [text verified 1 time]
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2014-01-13
Line count: 9
Word count: 44
Er prüfte - ratlos - übergab dem Einst, dem Jetzt die Schlinge, griff hilflos nach ’nem Sinn, als ob die Seele ihm erblinde. Sucht’ in der Höh’, ob Gott da sei, suchte sein irdisch’ Selbst kam abwesend ’nem Abzug nah und trat dann aus der Welt.
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- Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2016 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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- a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
This text was added to the website: 2016-02-15
Line count: 9
Word count: 46