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The bustle in a house

by Emily Dickinson, 1890

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.

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson
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