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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 97 of 446 · First Series: Time and Eternity

Poem 22

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The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth, --

The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity.

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