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Emily Dickinson

1078

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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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1866

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