A choral setting for Emily Dickinson’s
“A drop fell on the apple tree”
by Susan J. Fischer
A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree
by Emily Dickinson
A drop fell on the apple tree,
Another on the roof;
A half a dozen kissed the eaves,
And made the gables laugh.
A few went out to help the brook,
That went to help the sea.
Myself conjectured, were they pearls,
What necklaces could be!
The dust replaced in hoisted roads,
The birds jocoser sung;
The sunshine threw his hat away,
The orchards spangles hung.
The breezes brought dejected lutes,
And bathed them in the glee;
The East put out a single flag,
And signed the fete away.
Performance by the
Church of the Transfiguration Choir
Claudia Dumschat, conductor
One East 29th Street
New York City
