If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking; poem by Emily Dickinson, music by Mary Alice Amidon, arranged by Peter Amidon
Performed by West Willow (Hannah North, Emma Schneider, Zara Bode, Anna Patton, Fred Breunig, Arthur Davis, Guillaume Sparrow-Pepin and Stefan Amidon) and directed by Stefan Amidon. This is one of many poems Mary Alice has set to music.
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LYRICS
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.