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There Is a Pain So Utter

A Hello Doggo musical setting of Emily Dickinson’s “There is a pain so utter”.

Tempo: 92 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

THERE is a pain so utter
It swallows Being up,
Then covers the abyss with trance
So memory can step
Around, across, upon it,
As One within a swoon
Goes steady, when an open eye
Would drop him bone by bone.

Poem is public domain.

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