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Non omnis moriar

I asked no other thing,

by Emily Dickinson · Explore poems

  1. I asked no other thing,
  2. No other was denied.
  3. I offered Being for it;
  4. The mighty merchant smiled.
  5.  
  6. Brazil? He twirled a button,
  7. Without a glance my way:
  8. "But, madam, is there nothing else
  9. That we can show to-day?"

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