The Simple Days

"The Simple Days" can be found in the collection of Ernst Bacon songs entitled Songs from Emily Dickinson: Nature Time and Space - Volume 1.

Date: 1944Composer: Ernst BaconText: Emily Dickinson

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The Simple Days
by Emily Dickinson

To venerate the simple days
Which lead the seasons by,
Needs but to remember
That from you or I,
They may take the trifle
Termed mortality!

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Songs from Emily Dickinson: Nature, time and space Vol. 1

Composer(s): Ernst Bacon

Song(s): Is There Such a Thing as Day?
Alabaster Wool (Snowfall)Simple days
A spider
On this wondrous sea
A drop fell on the apple tree

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