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The Heart Asks Pleasure First
by:
Emily Dickinson
(1830-1886)
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.
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