Emily Dickinson
Letter 387 (March 1873?) - no ms. Louise and Frances Norcross
... I open my window, and it fills the chamber with white dirt. I think God must be dusting; and the wind blows so I expect to read in The Republican "Cautionary signals for Amherst," or, "No ships ventured out from Phoenix Row." ... Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime. It is safe to remember that. ...