1990
Of Tolling Bell I ask the cause?
Composed by 
Leo Smit
Leo Smit Text by 
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Beyond Circumference Song Collection
"Of Tolling Bell I ask the cause?" is the sixth 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 Tolling Bell I ask the cause? (poem 947)
by Emily Dickinson
Of Tolling Bell I ask the cause?
“A Soul has gone to Heaven”
I’m answered in a lonesome tone —
Is Heaven then a Prison?
That Bells should ring till all should know
A Soul had gone to Heaven
Would seem to me the more the way
A Good News should be given.