As if the Sea should part (Jennifer Bastable)

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• (Posted 2025-07-31)  CPDL #86139:       

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2025-07-31).   Score information: Letter, 9 pages, 390 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: As if the Sea should part
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: Emily Dickinson
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A setting for SSATB of Emily Dickinson's poem.

Original text and translations

English text

As if the Sea should part
And show a further Sea —
And that — a further — and the Three
But a presumption be —

Of Periods of Seas —
Unvisited of Shores —
Themselves the Verge of Seas to be —
Eternity — is Those —