Two swimmers wrestled on the spar

Emily Dickinson

1830 to 1886

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We are working on musical arrangements of Two swimmers wrestled on the spar by Emily Dickinson and they will be published on a date yet to be decided.

Two swimmers wrestled on the spar
Until the morning sun,
When one turned smiling to the land.
O God, the other one!

The stray ships passing spied a face
Upon the waters borne,
With eyes in death still begging raised,
And hands beseeching thrown.

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Emily Dickinson's Two swimmers wrestled on the spar

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