Berkshire Songs (2006)
For children's chorus (SA, SSA, or SSAA) and adult chorus (SATB, with div.)
Text by Emily Dickinson
Commissioned and premiered by the Nebraska Choral Arts Society in March 2006
Duration: 6 minutes
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Texts by Emily Dickinson
1495
The Thrill came slowly like a Boon for
Centuries delayed
Its fitness growing like the Flood
In sumptuous solitude-
The desolation only missed
While Rapture changed its Dress
And stood amazed before the Change
In ravished Holiness-
288
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there 's a pair of us-don't tell!
They 'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
1023
It rises -- passes -- on our South
Inscribes a simple Noon --
Cajoles a Moment with the Spires
And infinite is gone --
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