There came a wind like a bugle

There came a wind like a bugle,
It quivered through the grass,
And a green chill upon the heat
So ominous did pass

We barred the window and the doors
As from an emerald ghost
The doom's electric moccasin
That very instant passed.

On a strange mob of planting trees,
And fences fled away,
And rivers where the houses ran
[The living looked that day,]1

The bell within the steeple wild,
The flying tidings [whirled]2.
How much can come and much can go,
And yet abide the world!

by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) , no title, from Poems by Emily Dickinson, published 1891

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

by Ernst Bacon (1898-1990) , "A wind like a bugle", published 1971 [SSAA chorus and piano], from Nature, no. ?
by Milton Bliss , "There came a wind like a bugle" [chorus: SSA a cappella]
by Aaron Copland (1900-1990) , "There came a wind like a bugle", 1949-50, published 1951 [mezzo-soprano, piano], from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 2.
by Lee Hoiby (1926-) , "There came a wind like a bugle", from Four Dickinson Songs, no. 4.
by Thomas Pasatieri (1945-) , "There came a wind like a bugle", published 1976 [soprano, clarinet, violin, violoncello, and piano], from Far from love, no. 8.
by George Perle (1915-) , "There came a wind like a bugle", 1977 [voice and piano], from Thirteen Dickinson Songs, no. ?

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