2000
The Sun Kept Setting
Composed by 
Jake Heggie
Jake Heggie Text by 
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson How Well I Knew the Light Song Collection
"The Sun Kept Setting, Setting Still" is the second song in Jake Heggie's song set How Well I Knew the Light, which sets the poetry of Emily Dickinson.
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The Sun Kept Setting, Setting Still
by Emily Dickinson
The sun kept setting, setting still;
No hue of afternoon
Upon the village I perceived,! –
From house to house ‘t was noon.
The dusk kept dropping, dropping still;
No dew upon the grass,
But only on my forehead stopped,
And wandered in my face.
My feet kept drowsing, drowsing still,
My fingers were awake;
Yet why so little sound myself
Unto my seeming make?
How well I knew the light before!
I could not see it now.
‘T is dying, I am doing; but
I’m not afraid to know.
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