1997


Bind Me – I Still Can Sing

Composed by Libby Larsen

Chanting to Paradise Song Collection


"Bind Me - I Still Can Sing" is the first song of Libby Larsen's song cycle Chanting to Paradise, which sets the poetry of Emily Dickinson.

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Bind me — I still can sing — (poem 1005)
by Emily Dickinson

Bind me — I still can sing —
Banish — my mandolin
Strikes true within —

Slay — and my Soul shall rise
Chanting to Paradise —
Still thine.