A solemn thing it was

A solemn thing it was, I said,
A woman white to be,
And wear, if God should count me fit,
Her hallowed mystery.

A timid thing to drop a life
Into the purple well,
Too plummetless that it comes back
Eternity until.

by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) , no title, from Poems by Emily Dickinson, published 1896

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by Henry Mollincone (1946-) , "A solemn thing it was", published 1966 [SSAA chorus and piano or harp], from Five Poems of Love, no. ?

ITA Italian (Ferdinando Albeggiani)

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