1990


That Such have died enable Us

Composed by Leo Smit

Beyond Circumference Song Collection


"That Such have died enable Us" is the seventeenth 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. For inquiries about Leo Smit and to obtain sheet music, please contact Nils Vigeland at nvigeland@optonline.net.

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That Such have died enable Us (poem 1030)
by Emily Dickinson

That Such have died enable Us
The tranquiller to die —
That Such have lived,
Certificate for Immortality.