NP: David Sylvian Singing Emily Dickinson

[Jed Kelestron]

I should not dare to leave my friend,	
Because—because if he should die	
While I was gone, and I—too late—	
Should reach the heart that wanted me;	

If I should disappoint the eyes	
That hunted, hunted so, to see,	
And could not bear to shut until	
They “noticed” me—they noticed me;	

If I should stab the patient faith	
So sure I ’d come—so sure I ’d come,	
It listening, listening, went to sleep	
Telling my tardy name,—	

My heart would wish it broke before,	
Since breaking then, since breaking then,	
Were useless as next morning’s sun,	
Where midnight frosts had lain!	

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