released May 4, 2018
Text for THE SUN is based upon three separate poems by
Emily Dickinson - punctuation and capitals by Emily Dickinson:

When I have seen the Sun emerge
From His amazing House -
And leave a Day at every Door
A Deed, in every place -

Without the incident of Fame
Or accident of Noise -
The Earth has seemed to me a Drum,
Pursued of little Boys .......(#888)

She sweeps with many-colored Brooms -
And leaves the Shreds behind -
Oh Housewife in the Evening West -
Come back, and dust the Pond!

You dropped a Pulple Ravelling in -
You dropped an Amber thread -
And now you've littered all the East
With Duds of Emerald!
And still, she plies her spotted Brooms,
And still the Aprons fly,
Till Brooms fade softy into stars -
And then I come away - .......(#219)

The Sun went down - no Man looked on -
The Earth and I, alone,
Were present at the Majesty -
He triumphed, and went on -

The Sun went up - no Man looked on -
The Earth and I and One
A nameless Bird - a Stranger
Were Witness for the Crown - ......(#1079)

Poetry of Emily Dickinson used here by permission of
Harvard University Press as publisher:

THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Cambridge,Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1951, 1955 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © renewed 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1914, 1918, 1919, 1924, 1929, 1930,1932, 1935, 1937, 1942, by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Copyright © 1952, 1957, 1958, 1963,1965, by Mary L. Hampson.