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Circuit II - (08) (Preface) Will There Really Be a Morning? (J-0101) (F-0148) Listen to the splash! of a duck landing in a lily pond (72K, wav)

(1) Will there really be a morning?   Is there such a thing as day? (2) Could I see it from the mountains   If I were as tall as they? (3) Has it feet like water-lilies?   Has it feathers like a bird? (4) Is it brought from famous countries   Of which I have never heard? (5) Oh, some scholar! Oh, some sailor!   Oh, some wise man from the skies! (6) Please to tell a little pilgrim   Where the place called morning lies! ~ Emily Dickinson Slideshow ~ Daybreak!

Commentary adapted from Emily Dickinson's Poems & Letters

(1-4) "A little purple — slipped between — some ruby trousers hurried on — a wave of gold — a bank of day — this just makes out the morning sky." ~ (J-0204) (F-0233)

(1-4) "A fresh morning of life with its impregnable chances . . ." ~ (L #756)

(1-6) "It is strange that the most intangible thing is the most adhesive." ~ (L #515)

(1-6) "The inferential knowledge — the distinctest one." ~ (L #685)

(1-6) "And pilgrims! Do you hesitate?" ~ (L #203)

(1-6 Comparative) "Bring me the sunset in a cup, reckon the morning's flagons up, and say how many dew; tell me how far the morning leaps, tell me what time the weaver sleeps who spun the breadths of blue!" ~ (J-0128) (F-0140)

(1-6) "Of this is day composed — a morning and a noon, a revelry unspeakable and then a gay unknown." ~ (J-1675) (F-1692)

(3-September) "Have the wild geese crossed - Did you save the seed to the pond lily?" ~ (L #294)

(4-6) "Sunshine was a sweet place — I liked to stay." ~ (J-0425) (F-0640)

(5) "[G]reyhaired sinners are saved — simple maids may be wise, who knoweth?" ~ (L #44)

(5-6) "I have seen the Sun emerge from his amazing house — and leave Day at every door / a deed, in every place." ~ (J-0888) (F-1095)

(6) "A little boy ran away from Amherst a few days ago, and when asked where he was going, relpied, 'Vermont or Asia.'" ~ (L #685)

(6) "I think the early spiritual influences about a child are more hallowing than we know. The angel begins in the morning in every human life." ~ (L #824)

(6) "So looking on — the night — the morn conclude the wonder gay — And I meet, coming thro' the dews another summer's Day!" ~ (J-0122) (F-0104)

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