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Going to Heaven! I don't know when, Pray do not ask me how, - Indeed I'm too astonished To think of answering you! Going to Heaven! - How dim it sounds! And yet it will be done As sure as flocks go home at night Unto the shepherd's arm! Perhaps you're going too! Who knows? If you should get there first Save just a little place for me Close to the two I lost! The smallest "robe" will fit me, And just a bit of "crown"; For you know we do not mind our dress When we are going home. 1 I'm glad I don't believe it For it would stop my breath, And I'd like to look a little more At such a curious earth! I am glad they did believe it Whom I have never found Since the mighty autumn afternoon I left them in the ground.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Copland adds here "Going to Heaven!"
Authorship
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1891 [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 Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990), "Going to Heaven!", c1949, published 1951 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 11 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Valerie Saalbach (b. 1951), "Going to Heaven!" [ voice and piano ], from Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Me’n vaig al cel!", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Je monte au ciel !", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 149
Je monte au ciel ! Je ne sais pas quand Je vous en prie, ne me demandez pas comment Car je suis trop étonnée Pour penser à vous répondre Je monte au ciel ! Comme cela semble vague Et pourtant ce sera fait Aussi sûrement que les troupeaux rentrent le soir Vers l'abri du berger ! Peut-être montez-vous aussi ! Qui sait ? Si vous y arrivez le premier Gardez-moi une petite place Près des deux que j'ai perdus. La moindre robe m'ira Et juste une petite couronne Car vous savez qu'on ne fait pas attention à ses habits Quand on rentre à la maison. Je suis contente de ne pas y croire Car cela arrêterait ma respiration Et j'aimerais regarder un peu plus Une si curieuse terre. Je suis contente qu'ils l'ait cru Ceux que je n'ai jamais trouvés Depuis ce sacré après-midi d'automne Où je les ai laissés sous terre.
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- a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1891
This text was added to the website: 2008-11-09
Line count: 27
Word count: 152