Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MUSICIANS WRESTLE EVERYWHERE, by EMILY DICKINSON


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Last Line: Please god – shall ascertain!
Subject(s): Music & Musicians


Musicians wrestle everywhere -

All day - among the crowded air

I hear the silver strife -

And - waking - long before the morn -
Such transport breaks upon the town

I think it that "New Life"!



It is not Bird - it has no nest -

Nor "Band" - in brass and scarlet - drest -

Nor Tamborin - nor Man -

It is not Hymn from pulpit read -

The "Morning Stars" the Treble led

On Time's first Afternoon!



Some - say - it is "the Spheres" - at play!

Some say that bright Majority

Of vanished Dames - and Men!

Some - think it service in the place

Where we - with late - celestial face -

Please God - shall ascertain!




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