At last -- to be identified!
At last -- the Lamps upon1 [thy]2 side --
The rest of Life -- to see --

Past Midnight -- past the Morning Star --
Past Sunrise -- Ah, what Leagues there [are]2
Between our feet -- and Day!

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¹ spelled "opon" in the manuscript versions.
² in one of the two manuscript variants, Dickinson had "your"
³ in one of the two manuscript variants, Dickinson had "were".

Text Authorship:

• by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890 [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 Arthur Farwell (1872 - 1952), "Resurgam", op. 66 no. 2, published 1926, from Two Poems by Emily Dickinson, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Jake Heggie (b. 1961), "At last, to be identified!", 1995 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Richard Pearson Thomas (b. 1957), "At last to be identified!", from At last, to be identified, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 39

Enfin -- être identifiée --
Enfin -- les Lampes à tes côtés --
Le reste de la vie -- à voir --

Au delà de Minuit -- au delà de l'Étoile du Matin --
Au delà du Lever du Soleil -- Ah, Que de Lieues il y avaient --
Entre Nos Pieds -- et le Jour !