1990
To pile like Thunder to its close
Composed by 
Leo Smit
Leo Smit Text by 
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson The White Diadem Song Collection
"To pile like Thunder to its close" is the sixth song in Leo Smit's song cycle The White Diadem. The White Diadem is the last 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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To pile like Thunder to its close (poem 1247)
by Emily Dickinson
To pile like Thunder to its close
Then crumble grand away
While Everything created hid
This — would be Poetry —
Or Love — the two coeval come —
We both and neither prove —
Experience either and consume —
For None see God and live —