JULIANA HALL - Down Time's quaint stream

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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Down Time's quaint stream
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Down Time’s quaint stream
Without an oar,
We are enforced to sail,
Our Portꟷa secretꟷ
Our Perchanceꟷa gale.
What Skipper would
Incur the risk,
What Buccaneer would ride,
Without a surety from the wind
Or schedule of the tide?
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"Down Time's quaint stream" by Emily Dickinson is in the public domain.
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