1990
Bind me — I still can sing —
Composed by
Leo Smit
Leo Smit Text by
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson The Celestial Thrush Song Collection
"Bind me — I still can sing —" is the ninth song in Leo Smit's song cycle The Celestial Thrush. The Celestial Thrush is the second of Smit's six song cycles setting the poetry of Emily Dickinson.
For more information about Leo Smit's Emily Dickinson song cycles, please visit the pages for The Ecstatic Pilgrimage and Leo Smit.
For inquiries about Leo Smit and to obtain sheet music, please contact Nils Vigeland at nvigeland@optonline.net.
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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.