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Thunder Hurried Slow

from Dickinson's Christmas Carol by Grey Anne

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Grey Anne's "Dickinson's Christmas Carol" series of home recordings, combines well-known holiday melodies w/ Emily Dickinson poems.

This one is "O Come O Come Emmanuel" + "A Wind..." + "A Thought Went Up My Mind."

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The wind began to rock the grass
With threatening tunes and low,--
He flung a menace at the earth,
A menace at the sky.

The leaves unhooked themselves from trees
And started all abroad;
The dust did scoop itself like hands
And throw away the road.

The wagons quickened on the streets,
The thunder hurried slow;
The lightning showed a yellow beak,
And then a livid claw.

The birds put up the bars to nests,
The cattle fled to barns;
There came one drop of giant rain,
And then, as if the hands

That held the dams had parted hold,
The waters wrecked the sky
But overlooked my father's house,
lust quartering a tree.

A thought went up my mind today
that I have had before
but did not finish some way back
I could not fix the year...

nor where it went
nor why it came
a second time to me
nor definitely what it was
have I the art to say.

But somewhere in my soul I know
I've met the thing before
It just reminded me, 'twas all
then came my way no more.

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from Dickinson's Christmas Carol, released December 10, 2011

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Grey Anne Portland, Oregon

Originally hailing from Anacortes, WA, Anne Adams has been a mainstay of Portland music since 2003, playing under the monikers "Per Se" and "Grey Anne," and collaborating in electronica duo "Sweater." A trailblazer of the earnest, theatrical folk era that followed ironic indie rock, she's more recently expanded her endeavors to include work on the film Coraline, dinosaur tarot and arts journalism. ... more

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