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  • The Heart Asks

    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!

    by Emily Dickinson

     



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