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An Awful Tempest Mashed the Air

A Hello Doggo musical setting of Emily Dickinson’s “An awful tempest mashed the air”.

Tempo: 131 BPM

Music, recording and artwork: CC0 1.0. Source-poem rights are separate: Poem is public domain. Source and provenance.

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Source poem by Emily Dickinson

An awful tempest mashed the air,
The clouds were gaunt and few;
A black, as of a spectre's cloak,
Hid heaven and earth from view.

The creatures chuckled on the roofs
And whistled in the air,
And shook their fists and gnashed their teeth.
And swung their frenzied hair.

The morning lit, the birds arose;
The monster's faded eyes
Turned slowly to his native coast,
And peace was Paradise!

Poem is public domain.

Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete

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