The heart asks pleasure first,

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1. The heart asks pleasure first,
2. And then, excuse from pain;
3. And then, those little anodynes
4. That deaden suffering;
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6. And then, to go to sleep;
7. And then, if it should be
8. The will of its Inquisitor,
9. The liberty to die.