One Day is there of the Series

One Day is there of the Series
Termed Thanksgiving Day.
Celebrated part at Table
Part in Memory.

Neither Patriarch nor Pussy
I dissect the Play
Seems it to my Hooded thinking
Reflex Holiday.

Had there been no sharp Subtraction
From the early Sum —
Not an Acre or a Caption
Where was once a Room —

Not a Mention, whose small Pebble
Wrinkled any Sea,
Unto Such, were such Assembly
‘Twere Thanksgiving Day.

Emily Dickinson

Thanksgiving Day was Lincoln Memorial Day

There is one Day of the Series
Termed Thanksgiving Day.
Celebrated elements at Table
Half in Memory.

I don’t look at the behavior
Of Patriarch or Pussy
It seems to my mournful thinking
Memorial day.

If there had been no sharp Loss
From the early Value —
If not an graveyard or an Inscription
Where was once a Space —

If He didn’t uttered a Mention, whose small Pebble
Wrinkled any Sea,
Such Gathering were to Such,
'Twere Thanksgiving Day.

* Thanksgiving Day was observed on various days until Abraham Lincoln proclaimed in 1863 that Thanksgiving Day be observed on the fourth Thursday of November in the United State of America. He was assassinated in 1865. The first Thanksgiving Day after the tragedy was celebrated on the fourth Thursday in 1865. The gathering was not joyous to Emily. Her thought was on Abraham Lincoln.