Poem by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Music by Emily Lau (b. 1984)

Lyrics
That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.
Believing what we don’t believe
Does not exhilarate.

That if it be, it be at best
An ablative estate—
This instigates an appetite
Precisely opposite.

Credits
from Sea Tangle: Songs from the North, released December 21, 2016
Maren Montalbano, mezzo-soprano
Rebecca Harris, violin
Elizabeth Huston, harp