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since feeling is first - Chiptune Mix

A Hello Doggo musical setting of E. E. Cummings’s “since feeling is first”.

Tempo: 174 BPM

Music, recording and artwork: CC0 1.0. Source-poem rights are separate: Poem is public domain in the United States and at least 91 other countries; still in copyright in Italy, Peru and Uruguay through 2032. Source and provenance.

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Source poem by E. E. Cummings

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry
—the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids’ flutter which says

we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis

Poem is public domain in the United States and at least 91 other countries; still in copyright in Italy, Peru and Uruguay through 2032.

is 5, FOUR VII — 1970 Liveright paperback, via Wikisource (original collection 1926)

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