1936
As If the Sea (op. 101, no. 3)
Composed by
Arthur Farwell
Arthur Farwell Text by
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Four Emily Dickinson Songs, Op. 101 Song Collection
"As If the Sea" is the third song of Arthur Farwell's Four Emily Dickinson Songs, Op. 101. The song is currently published in Arthur Farwell's Thirty-Four Songs on Poems of Emily Dickinson, Vol. 1.
Text
As if the Sea should part (poem 695)
by Emily Dickinson
As if the Sea should part
And show a further Sea —
And that — a further — and the Three
But a presumption be —
Of Periods of Seas —
Unvisited of Shores —
Themselves the Verge of Seas to be —
Eternity — is Those —
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