NP - E. Dickinson - The Heart Asks Pleasure First

[David Morris]

The Heart asks Pleasure -- first --
And then -- Excuse from Pain --
And then -- those little Anodynes
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That deaden suffering --

And then -- to go to sleep --
And then -- if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor
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The privilege to die --