1990


Is it too late to touch you, Dear?

Composed by Leo Smit

The Marigold Heart Song Collection


"Is it too late to touch you, Dear?" is the eleventh song in Leo Smit's song cycle The Marigold Heart. The Marigold Heart is the third 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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Is it too late to touch you, Dear? (poem 1637)
by Emily Dickinson

Is it too late to touch you, Dear?
We this moment knew —
Love Marine and Love terrene —
Love celestial too —