Sweet Safe Houses

Music: Nelson LeDuc
Text: Emily Dickinson
Mezzo-Soprano: Karley Swallow
Piano: Shanshan Song
Recorded September 28, 2024
Dumke Recital Hall
University of Utah
Sweet, safe houses
Glad, gay houses -
Sealed so stately tight
Lids of steel on lids of marble,
Locking Bare feet out.
Brooks of plush in banks of satin
Not so softly fall
As the laughter and the whisper
From their people pearl
No bald death affront their parlors,
No bold sickness come
To deface their stately treasures -
Anguish and the tomb
Hum by in muffled coaches
Lest they wonder why
Any, for the press of smiling,
Interrupt to die

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Dramatic! Nice work!!