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Emily Dickinson
(1830–86).
Complete Poems.
1924.
Part One: Life
IX
T
HE HEART
asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep;
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And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.
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