Personal Effects Reveal/Quotes

"''Death sets a Thing significant

The Eye had hurried by

Except a perished Creature

Entreat us tenderly

To ponder little Workmanships

In Crayon, or in Wool,

With "This was last Her fingers did"--

Industrious until--

The Thimble weighed too heavy--

The stitches stopped--by themselves--

And then 'twas put among the Dust

Upon the Closet shelves--

A Book I have--a friend gave--

Whose Pencil--here and there--

Had notched the place that pleased Him--

At Rest--His fingers are--

Now--when I read--I read not--

For interrupting Tears--

Obliterate the Etchings

Too Costly for Repairs.''"

- Emily Dickinson