JULIANA HALL - A Book

song for soprano, mezzo-soprano, or tenor and piano on a poem by Emily Dickinson
Maggie Finnegan, soprano
Juliana Hall, piano
Emily Dickinson, poet
Juliana Hall, composer
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A Book
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Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea,ꟷ
Past the houses, past the headlands,
Into deep eternity!
Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?
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"A Book" by Emily Dickinson is in the public domain.
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