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Apparently with No Surprise

A Hello Doggo musical setting of Emily Dickinson’s “Apparently with no surprise”.

Tempo: 159 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

Apparently with no surprise
To any happy flower,
The frost beheads it at its play
In accidental power.
The blond assassin passes on,
The sun proceeds unmoved
To measure off another day
For an approving God.

Poem is public domain.

Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete

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