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The Bustle in a House
Project Gutenberg eBook #12242, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
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Source: Project Gutenberg eBook #12242, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete Source URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12242 Public domain basis: Complete text of the three posthumous series edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson (1890, 1891, 1896), with their editorial titles and regularized punctuation. Public domain. Coverage: Complete individual poem extracted from parent edition poems-of-emily-dickinson at bytes 42528-42729; checksum f229ceb0424548f078a8e20c78a93e94d08b2487dee3204b1417aebf731bb366.
# The Bustle in a House
The Bustle in a 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.