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He Fumbles at Your Soul

A Hello Doggo musical setting of Emily Dickinson’s “He fumbles at your soul”.

Tempo: 120 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

He fumbles at your soul
As players at the keys
Before they drop full music on;
He stuns you by degrees,

Prepares your brittle substance
For the ethereal blow,
By fainter hammers, further heard,
Then nearer, then so slow

Your breath has time to straighten,
Your brain to bubble cool,—
Deals one imperial thunderbolt
That scalps your naked soul.

Poem is public domain.

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Third Series (Roberts Brothers, 1896), p. 86; first line as in Dickinson’s manuscripts

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