1988
How the Waters Closed
Composed by 
Lee Hoiby
Lee Hoiby Text by 
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Four Dickinson Songs Song Collection
"How the Waters Closed" is the second song in Lee Hoiby's song cycle Four Dickinson Songs of 1988.
Text
How the Waters closed above Him (923)
by Emily Dickinson
How the Waters closed above Him
We shall never know —
How He stretched His Anguish to us
That — is covered too —
Spreads the Pond Her Base of Lilies
Bold above the Boy
Whose unclaimed Hat and Jacket
Sum the History —
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