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Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant

A Hello Doggo musical setting of Emily Dickinson’s “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant”.

Tempo: 167 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

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise

As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind—

Poem is public domain.

Amherst Manuscript #372 (about 1868), Johnson transcription cross-check

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