1990
Of Course — I prayed —
Composed by 
Leo Smit
Leo Smit Text by 
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Beyond Circumference Song Collection
"Of Course — I prayed —" is the third song in Leo Smit's song cycle Beyond Circumference. Beyond Circumference is the fourth 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.
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Text
Of Course — I prayed — (poem 376)
by Emily Dickinson
Of Course — I prayed —
And did God Care?
He cared as much as on the Air
A Bird — had stamped her foot —
And cried “Give Me” —
My Reason — Life —
I had not had — but for Yourself —
‘Twere better Charity
To leave me in the Atom’s Tomb —
Merry, and Nought, and gay, and numb —
Than this smart Misery.