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.
First print Time and Eternity XXII, 22
Johnson 1078 | Franklin 1108
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■Notes for Emily Dickinson’s poetry;
Poems one-by-one print and fascicle comparison,
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