Out of Sight?

"Out of Sight?" is the fourth and final song of Libby Larsen's song cycle Chanting to Paradise, which sets the poetry of Emily Dickinson.

Date: 1997Composer: Libby LarsenText: Emily DickinsonSong Collection: Chanting to Paradise

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Out of sight? What of that?
by Emily Dickinson

Out of sight? What of that?
See the Bird — reach it!
Curve by Curve — Sweep by Sweep —
Round the Steep Air —
Danger! What is that to Her?
Better ’tis to fail — there —
Than debate — here —

Blue is Blue — the World through —
Amber — Amber — Dew — Dew —
Seek — Friend — and see —
Heaven is shy of Earth — that’s all —
Bashful Heaven — thy Lovers small —
Hide — too — from thee —

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