In This Short Life

"In This Short Life" is the third and final song in Lori Laitman's song cycle In This Short Life, which sets three poems of Emily Dickinson.

Date: 2012Composer: Lori LaitmanText: Emily Dickinson

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Text

In this short Life (poem 1287)
by Emily Dickinson

In this short Life
That only lasts an hour
How much — how little — is
Within our power

Sheet Music

In This Short Life

Composer(s): Lori Laitman

Song(s): 1. Some Keep the Sabbath
2. I Stepped From Plank to Plank
3. In This Short Life

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