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Much Madness Is Divinest Sense

A Hello Doggo musical setting of Emily Dickinson’s “Much madness is divinest sense”.

Tempo: 184 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

Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
'T is the majority
In this, as all, prevails.
Assent, and you are sane;
Demur,—you're straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.

Poem is public domain.

Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete

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