Poems (Dickinson)/The bustle in a house

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6527Poems — The bustle in a house1890Emily Dickinson

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.