Poems — First Series by Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Mabel Loomis Todd

The Bustle in a House

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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