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Least Bee that brew -- A Honey's Weight The Summer multiply -- Content Her smallest fraction help The Amber Quantity --
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Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title [author's text not yet checked 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 Stefano Gervasoni (b. 1962), "676", 1991-2, rev. 1993-2003 [voice and chamber ensemble], from Least Bee, no. 4, Ricordi [ sung text verified 1 time]
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2011-10-22
Line count: 5
Word count: 18
Der kleinsten Biene Honigtracht vervielfacht Sommers Zeit - froh ist sie, dass selbst kleinste Fracht zur gold’nen Ernt’ trägt bei.
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Bertram Kottmann. Contact: BKottmann (AT) t-online.de
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Based on:
- a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
This text was added to the website: 2017-06-22
Line count: 4
Word count: 20