Obituary for Emily Dickinson 2

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uneventfulness, unmarkedly
sad as joyous crises. Very few in the
village knew Miss Emily per-
sonally, except among the older
in habitants, although the fact
of her seclusion and intellectual
brilliancy was one of the familiar
Amherst traditions. There are many homes
among the classes into which
her dainty treasures of fruit and
flowers and almost ambrosial
dishes for the sick and well
were constantly sent, that will
forever miss those dainty traces