"The bustle in the house"

XXII.

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.

 

from Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890)
The First Lesson	"I reason, earth is short"

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