Emily Dickinson

Better — than Music! For I — who heard it

503 Better — than Music! For I — who heard it — I was used — to the Birds — before — This — was different — 'Twas Translation — Of all tunes I knew — and more — 'Twasn't contained — like other stanza — No one could play it — the second time — But the Composer — perfect Mozart — Perish with him — that Keyless Rhyme! So — Children — told how Brooks in Eden — Bubbled a better — Melody — Quaintly infer — Eve's great surrender — Urging the feet — that would — not — fly — Children — matured — are wiser — mostly — Eden — a legend — dimly told — Eve — and the Anguish — Grandame's story — But — I was telling a tune — I heard — Not such a strain — the Church — baptizes — When the last Saint — goes up the Aisles — Not such a stanza splits the silence — When the Redemption strikes her Bells — Let me not spill — its smallest cadence — Humming — for promise — when alone — Humming — until my faint Rehearsal — Drop into tune — around the Throne —