Oh, how Emmaline did write,
Her touch to the parchment;
How she thought it was a plight,
She forever a lent.
Plastered walls encompassing
As she avidly wrote.
White curtains to indite,
Details to she would gloat.
How she and they sat: cat and dog,
Hammers striking the strings.
Its tone creating a sound bog,
Words ones to ever sing.
Books stacked there effortlessly,
Beauty with a quote.
The animals, with ever chi,
Spied for an anecdote.
Yet, how literature was bent,
Her quilt now forsaken;
How they would forever relent:
They never awakened.
*Originally written in January 2012 for American Literature class*