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Let Us play Yesterday — (poem 728)
by Emily Dickinson
Let Us play Yesterday —
I — the Girl at school —
You — and Eternity — the
Untold Tale —
Easing my famine
At my Lexicon —
Logarithm — had I — for Drink —
‘Twas a dry Wine —
Somewhat different — must be —
Dreams tint the Sleep —
Cunning Reds of Morning
Make the Blind — leap —
Still at the Egg-life —
Chafing the Shell —
When you troubled the Ellipse —
And the Bird fell —
Manacles be dim — they say —
To the new Free —
Liberty — Commoner —
Never could — to me —
‘Twas my last gratitude
When I slept — at night —
‘Twas the first Miracle
Let in — with Light —
Can the Lark resume the Shell —
Easier — for the Sky —
Wouldn’t Bonds hurt more
Than Yesterday?
Wouldn’t Dungeons sorer frate
On the Man — free —
Just long enough to taste —
Then — doomed new —
God of the Manacle
As of the Free —
Take not my Liberty
Away from Me —
Sheet Music
Childe Emilie
Composer(s): Leo Smit
Song(s): 1. I was the slightest in the House
2. Through lane it lay - through bramble
3. It troubled me as once I was
4. The Child's faith is new
5. Softened by Time's consummate plush
6. Papa above!
7. We talked as Girls do
8. They shut me up in Prose
9. I cried at Pity - not at Pain
10. Let Us play Yesterday
11. A loss of something ever felt I
12. Good Morning - Midnight
13. Up Life's Hill with my little Bundle
14. I'm ceded - I've stopped being Theirs
Voice Type: Mezzo-Soprano, Soprano
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