by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
The going from a world we know
Language: English
The going from a world we know, To one a wonder still Is like the child's adversity Whose vista is a hill. Behind the hill is sorcery And everything unknown, But will the secret compensate For climbing it alone?
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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 Gordon Getty (b. 1933), "The going from a world we know" [soprano and piano], from The White Election - A Song Cycle for soprano and piano on 32 poems of Emily Dickinson, Part 4 : My Feet Slip Nearer, no. 29. [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2011-01-12
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