Until the House is built
And then the Props withdraw
And adequate, erect,
The House support itself
And cease to recollect
The Auger and the Carpenter—
Just such a retrospect
Hath the perfected Life—
A past of Plank and Nail
And slowness—then the Scaffolds drop
Affirming it a Soul.
--Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), American poet, written ca. 1863
Image: Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, 1936, in Stewart Township, PA.
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