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Six Dickinson Poems: 6. The Bee

from Sea Tangle: Songs from the North by Maren Montalbano

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Poem by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Music by Emily Lau (b. 1984)

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Like trains of cars on tracks of plush
I hear the level bee:
A jar across the flowers goes,
Their velvet masonry

Withstands until the sweet assault
Their chivalry consumes,
While he, victorious, tilts away
To vanquish other blooms.

His feet are shod with gauze,
His helmet is of gold;
His breast, a single onyx
With chrysoprase, inlaid.

His labor is a chant,
His idleness a tune;
Oh, for a bee’s experience
Of clovers and of noon!

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from Sea Tangle: Songs from the North, released December 21, 2016
Maren Montalbano, mezzo-soprano
Rebecca Harris, violin

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Maren Montalbano Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A graduate of both New England Conservatory of Music and Tufts University, Maren Montalbano can be heard in 3 GRAMMY Award- winning albums: John Adams’ On the Transmigration of Souls (2005), Gavin Bryars’ The Fifth Century (2018) & Lansing McLoskey's Zealot Canticles (2019). Ms. Montalbano lives in New Jersey and sings most often with Opera Philadelphia, Trio Eos, and The Crossing. ... more

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