2003
Hope is a Strange Invention
Composed by
Lori Laitman
Lori Laitman Text by
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson One Bee and Revery Song Collection
"Hope is a Strange Invention" is the second song in Lori Laitman's song cycle One Bee and Revery.
Text
Hope is a Strange Invention
by Emily Dickinson
Hope is a strange invention —
A Patent of the Heart —
In unremitting action
Yet never wearing out —
Of this electric Adjunct
Not anything is known
But its unique momentum
Embellish all we own —
Sheet Music
One Bee and Revery
Lori Laitman
1. The Butterfly Upon
2. Hope is a Strange Invention
3. To Make a Prairie
2. Hope is a Strange Invention
3. To Make a Prairie