1999

To Make a Prairie

Composed by Jake Heggie

From Emily’s Garden Song Collection

"To Make a Prairie" is the third song of Jake Heggie's song cycle From Emily's Garden.

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To Make a Prairie
by Emily Dickinson

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, –
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do
If bees are few.