2002
We Never Know How High We Are
Composed by 
Robert Beaser
Robert Beaser Text by 
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Four Dickinson Songs Song Collection
"We Never Know How High We Are" is the fourth and final song of Robert Beaser's Four Dickinson Songs.
Text
We Never Know How High We Are
by Emily Dickinson
We never know how high we are
Till we are asked to rise
And then if we are true to plan
Our statures touch the skies —
The Heroism we recite
Would be a normal thing
Did not ourselves the Cubits warp
For fear to be a King —
Sheet Music
Four Dickinson Songs
Robert Beaser
1. A Word is Dead
2. It Was Not Death
3. I Dwell in Possibility
4. We Never Know How High We Are
2. It Was Not Death
3. I Dwell in Possibility
4. We Never Know How High We Are