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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part One: Life

IX

THE HEART asks pleasure first,

And then, excuse from pain;

And then, those little anodynes

That deaden suffering;

And then, to go to sleep;

And then, if it should be

The will of its Inquisitor,

The liberty to die.