To be alive

To be alive is power,
Existence in itself,
Without a further function,
Omnipotence enough.

To be alive and Will -
'T is able as a God!
The Further of ourselves be what -
Such being Finitude?

by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) , no title, from The Single Hound, published 1914

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Daniel Pinkham (1923-) , "To be alive", published 1963 [SSAA chorus and piano or chamber orchestra], from An Emily Dickinson Mosaic, no. ?

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