2000
I Died For Beauty
Composed by 
Simon Sargon
Simon Sargon Text by 
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Intimations of Mortality Song Collection
"I Died For Beauty" is the third song of Simon Sargon's Intimations of Mortality, which sets the poetry of various poets.
Sheet music for Mr. Sargon's songs is available directly through the composer by contacting the following address: info@simonsargon.com.
Text
I Died For Beauty (poem 449)
by Emily Dickinson
I died for beauty, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.
He questioned softly why I failed ?
“For beauty,” I replied.
“And I for truth, — the two are one ;
We brethren are,” he said.
And so, as kinsmen met a night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
And covered up our names.
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