Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 05/09/2003 - 6:31am.
Archived comment by daen:
If I remember correctly, you can sing Emily Dickinson to just about any 8.6.8.6 hymn tune. (Sorry-- that would be 8 syllables first line, 6 syllables second line, etc.) That would be, oh, two-thirds of them. I amused myself by singing "Because I could not stop for death" to "O for a thousand tongues to sing", "While shepherds watched their flocks by night" and "Amazing grace."
If I remember correctly, you can sing Emily Dickinson to just about any 8.6.8.6 hymn tune. (Sorry-- that would be 8 syllables first line, 6 syllables second line, etc.) That would be, oh, two-thirds of them. I amused myself by singing "Because I could not stop for death" to "O for a thousand tongues to sing", "While shepherds watched their flocks by night" and "Amazing grace."